If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events ...

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The rate that our heart or liver ages may differ from that of our immune or hormonal systems, and now it seems that a single ...

Does heart disease or cancer run in your family? MUSC researchers have created a program to identify whether you’re at an ...

A massive eruption 74,000 years ago shook the planet, and archaeologists are using volcanic glass to figure out how humans ...

A North Texas lab worked around the clock to give families in the Hill Country much needed answers. SAN ANTONIO — In July, ...

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In polar bears, dolphins, baboons and more, molecular signatures of aging are changing how conservationists assess population ...

From September 2024 to August 2025, the lab received 4,160 evidence submissions and returned nearly 2,940 completed cases to ...

The visible effects of ageing on our body are in part linked to invisible changes in gene activity. The epigenetic process of DNA methylation — the addition or removal of tags called methyl groups — ...

A Suffolk County Supreme Court judge ruled Wednesday that hair and DNA evidence connecting alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann to the slayings of six women will be allowed as evidence ...