Scientists at the Leonardo DNA Project say they are getting closer to reconstructing the 500-year-old DNA of Leonardo da Vinci – the famous Italian polymath of the Renaissance. According to a recent ...

After nearly 50 years, an Illinois native who was killed in a traffic crash in Virginia in 1977 has been identified by the DNA Doe Project as Peter Adams, who had gone missing six days before his ...

For nearly five decades, the mysterious disappearance of Peter Adams, who was just 20 at the time, went unsolved.

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The DNA Doe Project says it's identified the remains of a man found a decade ago in southern Minnesota as World War II veteran Luis Gilberto Robledo. Project officials announced their findings ...

Former 8th Ward Ald. Devon Reid calls himself “a proud Evanstonian, a proud Illinoisan and a proud American.” However, he said his family’s origins have been a lingering question. Now, by ...

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Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. It’s been more than 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci died. Yet, in those intervening ...