In May 1845, Sir John Franklin and 134 men left England on one of the most ambitious Arctic expeditions of the 19th century.

The work was led by anthropologists in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo, who analyzed DNA taken from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have used DNA from the skeletal remains of four members of the ill-fated 1845 Franklin expedition to explore the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The expedition, which departed from Britain to chart the Northwest Passage in Canada, was made up of two ships and 129 men — there ...

Scientists have revealed the identities of four men who perished in Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 expedition. The Franklin Expedition was an attempt to discover the fabled Northwest Passage through ...

Around 180 years ago, a British expedition to the Arctic met a grisly end. Only recently have scientific investigations been able to identify the long-dead seamen. Now, thanks to DNA donations from ...

What Sir John Franklin’s doomed Arctic expedition teaches artificial intelligence builders and investors about overfitting, ...

New research shines a light on the lost Franklin Expedition, a 19th century voyage to the Canadian Arctic gone awry. : [POST-BROADCAST CLARIFICATION: This story has been updated to clarify that ...

'The largest, most complex underwater archeological undertakings in Canadian history' recovered more than 350 artifacts from the ship during 93 dives ...

A BBC newsreader has discovered that he is related to a sailor on the ill-fated Franklin expedition after his DNA was matched to a 175-year-old skeleton. Rich Preston, a regular presenter on BBC News, ...

Three served on the HMS <em>Erebus</em>; the fourth was Petty Officer Harry Peglar of the HMS <em>Terror</em> ...

(CNN) — Researchers have identified the remains of four members of a doomed 19th century expedition in the Arctic by matching DNA to the sailors’ living descendants — and solved a case of mistaken ...