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

A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as ...

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

The first historically recorded pandemic is believed to have struck the walled city of Jirash, in what is now modern-day ...

When a loved one goes missing, relatives can feel guilty simply for eating, says Charlie Shunick, whose sister was kidnapped.

Phil Unitt has been curator of birds and small mammals at the San Diego Natural History Museum (The Nat) for nearly four ...

When a loved one goes missing, relatives can feel guilty simply for eating, says Charlie Shunick, whose sister was kidnapped. Shunick now helps others navigate a nightmare "nobody is prepared for." ...

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 ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — As the Nancy Guthrie case enters week three, investigators and the public are awaiting potentially pivotal DNA results tied to a glove recovered near the scene. But according to ...

Friends of Arkansas PBS, a newly formed, citizen-led group that hopes to preserve programming from the national Public Broadcasting Service in Arkansas, is hosting its first talk on Thursday. Former ...

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 ...

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