In an ESSENCE cover story, Kerry Washington reflects on discovering she was conceived through a sperm donor. Read here.

A glove containing DNA found about two miles from the house of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie's mother appears to match those worn by a masked person outside her front door in Tucson the night she ...

Authorities trying to solve the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie say they might tap DNA genealogy databases, the same step that police took to unravel a decades-old series of murders in California and ...

The convicted sex offender and the late Cold Spring Harbor Lab director maintained a relationship for years — even up until ...

A leading exec at the public broadcasting institution breaks down the impact of recent government cuts and what to do about them ...

The Tallahassee Democrat revisited Florida State University researchers to talk about seafood mislabeling happening in the ...

James D. Montgomery, the city’s first Black corporation counsel, learns of his ancestral roots from Henry Louis Gates, ...

Rogers hosted Mister Rogers' Neighborhood from 1968 to 2001, creating a gentle space where children’s feelings were honored and explored, while Burton began leading Reading Rainbow in 1983, ...

Seed packets look simple, but they often hide key instructions and use confusing jargon. Especially for new gardeners who ...

He helped pioneer a newly complex approach to sampling in rap music, including on A Tribe Called Quest’s influential 1991 album “The Low End Theory.” ...

After more than a decade researching her ancestry, Shanna Ward published a book about her forefather John T. Ward, a formerly enslaved man who became an Underground Railroad conductor, abolitionist ...