Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia ...

However, new research by scientists working at the Institut Pasteur’s Microbial Paleogenomics Unit finds two previously ...

In the summer of 1812, the French emperor set out across Eastern Europe’s Neman River with over 615,000 Grand Army troops ...

Embedded in the teeth of long-dead soldiers, scientists found fragments of microbial DNA from Salmonella enterica, which is ...

Researchers uncover two previously undetected bacteria in teeth from Napoleon’s soldiers, revealing a possible combination of ...

The findings show that disease-causing mutations were found in around 2% of the sperm from men in their early 30s, increasing ...

Evolutionary biologists have long believed that the human-biting mosquito, Culex pipiens form molestus,evolved from the ...

A type of mosquito that was believed to have evolved in the London Underground has a much older origin in the Mediterranean, ...

A baby gorilla who was rescued from trafficking at Istanbul airport just before Christmas will remain in Turkey rather than ...

Sequencing genomic material extracted from the teeth of 13 soldiers in Napoleon’s troops highlighted that more diseases than previously thought affected the army.

A man with neurofibromas who didn't know he's been clinically diagnosed with NF1, learns he harbors a deeply intronic, likely ...

Scientists have found evidence of multiple infectious diseases that may have played key roles in the army’s catastrophic ...