SciShow
Tracking Plant Genetics Through Art
Just like animals, plants evolve and change over time. And you might think we'd be looking for things like fossils to figure out how they've changed, but some scientists are using a far less traditional resource: art.
SciShow
How DNA Analysis Led Police to the Golden State Killer
The Golden State Killer was finally caught last week after more than 40 years, but the science behind it wasn’t just your everyday DNA forensics.
Crash Course
The Century of the Gene: Crash Course History of Science
With the question “What is life?” addressed at the molecular level, humanity could finally cure all disease and live forever… Except, not really. It turns out we're complicated.
Weird History
The Woman Who Tricked People Into Thinking She Was Anastasia
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia was Czar Nicholas II's youngest daughter and a member of the Russian Imperial Romanov family. The family was placed under house arrest during the Bolshevik Revolution, and Anastasia was...
Weird History
Did A Mysterious Disease Take Out The Aztecs
For hundreds of years, history left us wondering what disease killed the Aztecs in the mid-1500s. Many assumed the Aztecs were one of many Central American groups to be wiped out by European diseases like smallpox. However, DNA testing...
Financial Times
Masters of Science: the new human story
The Natural History Museum's Chris Stringer on recent discoveries that are challenging the way we think about our ancestors.
Curated Video
Independent experts are presenting the conclusions of their review of the DNA evidence collected against an American student convicted of killing her British roommate in the Italian city of Perugia.
HEADLINE: Knox trial: DNA experts report to Italian court
CAPTION: Independent experts are presenting the conclusions of their review of the DNA evidence collected against an American student convicted of killing her British roommate in...
Curated Video
Prosecutors began closing arguments in a bid to uphold the murder conviction of American student Amanda Knox in the brutal 2007 slaying of her roommate
HEADLINE: Knox trial: prosecutors sum up their case
CAPTION: Prosecutors began closing arguments in a bid to uphold the murder conviction of American student Amanda Knox in the brutal 2007 slaying of her roommate. (Sept. 23)
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