"Where are you from?" has always been a tricky question for me. As a child, I always asserted that I was from Florida — which is true — but people were rarely content with that response. "No, but ...

The failure of Scottish policing bodies to record the ethnicity of arrested people it takes DNA samples from means there is no way of establishing whether minority groups are over-represented in ...

Scotland contains an unexpected amount of human genetic diversity, according to a new study of the country's inhabitants. The project, called "Scotland's DNA," found 150 different genetic lines of ...

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A new DNA survey of Loch Ness doesn't expect to find evidence for the Loch Ness Monster, but there's a Scottish government plan in place should they find genetic material from the elusive cryptid.

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