Over the past three decades, the collection of DNA from convicted criminals has become standard in the U.S. justice system, ...

A witness for the state offered new details in court Friday regarding the whereabouts of a truck belonging to Christopher ...

The United States is not merely awash in brutalizing and murderous acts of state-sanctioned violence. It is being ...

Is the world turning more autocratic and authoritarian? Yes, it feels like that right now, because of changes in the U.S., Russia, China, and elsewhere. But I would urge everyone to remember that ...

The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific bombshell that electrified the field of human origins. Now, geneticists at the ...

BookTok star Morgann Book is championing It’s Different This Time by Joss Richard on Canada Reads 2026! On Canada Reads, five Canadian celebrities each pick one book that the whole country should read ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore. The standard sperm-meets-egg story posits ...

In recent years, the popularity of at-home DNA testing kits has skyrocketed. Companies like the popular 23andMe have made it easier than ever for individuals to explore their genetic heritage, uncover ...

A Massachusetts woman gained two long-lost sisters through a DNA test — then tried to net a fortune when she sued them a month later over a malpractice settlement involving their dad. Carmen Thomas, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: We are generating staggering amounts of data every day. Data centers just can’t keep up with the demand. With data storage needs expected to soar in ...

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens access to non-coding regions, where most disease-associated genetic variants ...