Scientists are exploring how DNA’s physical structure can store vast amounts of data and encode secure information.

Scientists have discovered that DNA behaves in a surprising way when squeezed through tiny nanopores, overturning a long-held ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton has yielded the oldest known genome of the bacterium behind syphilis, revealing a lineage unlike ...

Nancy Guthrie's disappearance shows how modern crimes unfold online and in the real world. Criminals use tech to hide. Investigators use it to track.

Some claimants may receive thousands of dollars.

Feb. 15 marks the 15th day since Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie, disappeared ...

Scientists now believe life began long before LUCA. Older organisms, now vanished, passed on vital genetic tools. These 'pre-LUCA' ancestors developed complex biological functions. LUCA inherited ...

Scientists have identified a mirror-image form of the amino acid cysteine that selectively slows the growth of certain ...

As of Saturday evening, no arrests were made in connection with the Nancy Guthrie case after police swarmed a home about two miles from the kidnapping site.

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...

T o make good decisions on any question the public needs to be well-informed, something not so easily accomplished in America’s schools. That is a key point made by Michael Kent, a recently retired ...

Discover some interesting facts about bonobos, the peaceful and endangered great apes found only in the Congo rainforest.