Why do some people feel chills when listening to music, reading poetry, or viewing a powerful work of art, while others do ...

A growing body of genetic research now links the goosebumps people feel during a powerful song or a striking painting to inherited biological traits, not just personal taste. Multiple large-scale twin ...

People often remark that allergies run in their family, but the genetic causes have remained unclear. Previous food allergy ...

It's long been assumed the Jomon people, who had inhabited the Japanese archipelago since around 16,000 years ago, had multiple lineages resulting from different migration routes. But new genetic ...

She had brown eyes and black hair. She was almost 5 feet, 7 inches tall and chewed tobacco. She was in her 20s, carried heavy loads with her left arm and had given birth. We don't know her name, but ...

A new study says genetic testing can speed the return of the American chestnut tree that once dominated Eastern U.S. forests ...