An expert who worked on the infamous Idaho murders case has explained how digital technology could unearth new clues in the mysterious disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. “People forget how much their ...

DNA, the genetic blueprints in every living organism, is nature's most efficient storage mechanism, capable of storing about ...

A study published in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, destabilize the cancer genome. Unstable genomes are a fertile playground for cancer ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — The New Haven Police Department said it has made an arrest in an alleged sexual assault case dating back more than a decade thanks to DNA technology. New Haven Special ...

Perhaps human females found Neanderthal males to be high-status providers. Or perhaps Neanderthal society was “patrilocal” — meaning women moved to join the man’s family — while human society was the ...

I didn't even know 'Dark Genomes' existed.

It's been 25 days since Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson home in the middle of the night. The FBI is involved. A $1 ...

A couple of years ago, a company called Cortical Labs released a video that showed a simplified version of Pong being played by a culture of human neurons in a Petri dish. The idea that a bunch of ...

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and skeleton-free, explaining why their fossils don’t appear until much later. By ...

In the face of rising emissions from data centres, researchers are turning to micro-explosions in glass, and using DNA to solve big data's big problem.