Four years after a dead body was found inside a barrel with a bullet hole in its skull at Lake Mead, Las Vegas police have ...

The Science and Technology Policy Program at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy hosted a “science cafe” Oct. 13 to ...

A study of DNA from early colonial-era skeletons in a Montreal cemetery has revealed that none of them had any Indigenous ancestry.

Human genomic DNA is wrapped around core histone proteins to form nucleosomes, the fundamental units of chromatin. During ...

Late last month, Anthropic claimed it had discovered a curious stretch of DNA in a virus called a bacteriophage that repeats over and over again. This is a similar feature to that of CRISPR, the basis ...

A new DNA computer performed 700 computations across several experiments—without silicon or continuous energy input.

Rosalind Franklin “was an experimental perfectionist," says crystallographer Elspeth Garman. Franklin: Universal History ...

In 2010, researchers searching through viral DNA stumbled upon something that didn’t belong there. Inside the genome of a ...

Scientists have traced the development of a mouse embryo from its first two cells to the formation of organs, using a ...

For decades, scientists have been able to look at individual moments in the development of an embryo: a snapshot of a ...

A new analysis suggests that Rosalind Franklin, who took the first images of DNA’s double-helix structure, knew far more ...

The Huns were a nomadic people whose sudden and ferocious arrival in the late 4th century sent shockwaves through the ancient world. Known for their lightning-fast cavalry and relentless raids, they ...