WE THOUGHT we’d try somewhere adventurous and long-haul this February half term – only to balk at the price of five flights ...

Forget everything you thought about life's origins. Scientists now say it all began not in a cell, but in a glob of protective primordial slime.

New scientific theory based on ancient proteins suggests that genes did not arise as we believed and that life could have started elsewhere.

A deep dive into Mazda’s race-chassis rotary concept: carbon bodywork, E100 ethanol, 450 hp claims, and the infamous 2008 ...

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Researchers have made DNA storage rewritable, overcoming one of its biggest limitations. The breakthrough could turn DNA into a practical alternative to today’s energy-hungry data centers.

The DNA foundation model Evo 2 has been published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across ...

Scientists at UC Berkeley have discovered a microbe that bends one of biology’s most sacred rules. Instead of treating a specific three-letter DNA code as a clear “stop” signal, this methane-producing ...

Only a few years ago, Tuesday’s announcement that a glove believed to be connected to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona, had no match to a DNA database would have been a dead end.

Boffins at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute have found a new way to sort through the signals reaching us from space to find messages from aliens. By pointing their ...

Chromosomal breaks destabilize the genome and can cause developmental defects and diseases such as cancer. New work suggests that, shortly after DNA damage, dissociation of the histone binding protein ...