EditorialNew DNA testing suggests that a man cleared of raping and murdering a Pompano Beach racetrack groomer, Pamela Albertson, in 1990 was likely involved in her death. (Broward County Distirct Attorney via The New York Times)
EditorialCamila Alves, wife of the actor Matthew McConaughey, holds a pair of sneakers in her lap as her husband, a native son of Uvalde, Texas, speaks about gun control during a news briefing at the White House on Tuesday, June 7, 2022. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
EditorialMuhammad Ali and Mike Tysons boxing glove to Diego Maradona and Serena Williams uniforms among haul of sports treasures going under the hammer
EditorialJodie Ward, director of a new Australian program using DNA phenotyping to help link missing persons with unidentified remains, in Sydney, May 5 2022. (Stephanie Simcox/The New York Times)
EditorialZSL Whipsnade Zoo’s Asian elephants are contributing to global conservation efforts - simply by producing a ready supply of fresh dung. Zookeepers at the UK’s largest Zoo are collecting elephant dung samples to help conservationists across Asia and
EditorialIn a photo from the Far Western Anthropological Research Group, a partially excavated roasting pit at the Muwekma Ohlone excavation site at Sii Tuupenatak in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2017. (Far Western Anthropological Research Group via The New York Times)
EditorialA growing cohort of amateur DNA detectives, their hobby born of widespread consumer genetic testing paired with an unquenchable desire for true crime content, is paying to solve cold cases. (Tomasz Wozniakowski/The New York Times)
EditorialThe New York Police Department instructs detectives?to offer water, soda, a cigarette, gum or food to people whose DNA is sought -- and to collect the item once they leave. (Gregg Vigliotti/The New York Times)
EditorialKristin Brzeski, left, and Bridgett vonHoldt prepare a canid roadkill specimen, kept frozen at the Galveston Island Humane Society, to send to Princeton for DNA analysis, in Galveston, Texas, Aug. 17, 2021. (Tristan Spinski/The New York Times)
EditorialA technician drills into a skull to retrieve DNA, at the Harvard geneticist David Reich?s lab in Boston, March 15, 2018. (Kayana Szymczak/The New York Times)
EditorialAn aging rhinoceros at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo has contributed to the conservation and care of her own species, even after her death. Tissue samples, taken at the post-mortem of a 40-year old, Southern white rhino named Clara, will be used for a wide range
EditorialAn aging rhinoceros at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo has contributed to the conservation and care of her own species, even after her death. Tissue samples, taken at the post-mortem of a 40-year old, Southern white rhino named Clara, will be used for a wide range
EditorialThe LEGO Group unveils Launderette of Dreams, an installation by artist Yinka Ilori that celebrates how children use play to rebuild the world around them
Editorial An ancient circular structure at Pueblo del Arroyo, one of the great houses in Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, on Nov. 27, 2017. (Gabriella Marks/The New York Times)