Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered a rare cube-shaped skull that sheds light on the social practices of a Mesoamerican civilization from 1,400 years ago. The skull belonged to a man who died ...

Americans are tracing their Italian ancestry with the help of genealogy experts, DNA testing, and a rise in roots tourism. Jim Fiorini’s father was one of the more than two million Italians who ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? A recent ...