Around 20 years ago, a group of archaeologists made a curious discovery: something had been smeared on the heads and necks of ...

The findings could reshape our understanding of ancient food production and microbial fermentation practices in early ...

Bizarre clumps of organic matter found buried alongside Bronze Age mummies in northwestern China have now been identified as ...

Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have extracted DNA from the ancient cheese to reveal its key ingredients.

Scientists have sequenced DNA from 3,600-year-old cheese, the oldest in the archaeological record. The intact cheese was ...

The Tarim Basin mummies were discovered wearing tiny hunks of cheese around their necks—and a new DNA analysis is revealing ...

Researchers have discovered and analyzed DNA from the world's oldest cheese, found with the Tarim Basin mummies in China, ...

These small lumps of fermented dairy, laid around the necks of the deceased, represent the longest-aged cheese ever ...

Prosecutors and the victim’s family urged that he be spared based on DNA evidence showing that Williams was in fact innocent.

A body found inside a burned car has been identified as that of a Mississippi man who had been missing since mid-August.

New technology is making it easier to find the origins of trafficked wildlife so they can be released back to the habitat ...

New technology is making it easier to find the origins of trafficked wildlife and so they can be released back to the habitat they came from, instead of languishing for decades as sometimes happens.