A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers ...

20 amino acids are usually necessary for life, but scientists successfully deleted one.

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 ...

When we think about genetic inheritance, we usually leap to DNA, the four-letter code containing the instructions for ...

Researchers recently identified food DNA on the Shroud of Turin — a finding that suggests the burial cloth believed to have wrapped Jesus Christ may have been contaminated over time. In a preprint ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has found organic molecules on Mars that have never been detected before - hinting at the possibility there was once life on the Red Planet. After years of lab work, a rock that ...

El Salvador has published a new law that will allow authorities to penalise minors as young as 12 with life imprisonment for severe crimes, including homicide, terrorism or rape. On Tuesday, the ...

The winner at Martinsville last month, Chase Elliott is currently fifth in the NASCAR Cup Series standings. David Jensen / Getty Images Each week, The Athletic asks the same 12 questions to a ...

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Tanner Lynn Horner, who pleaded guilty to killing 7-year-old Athena Strand.

SAN SALVADOR — Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday signed into law constitutional reforms to permit life prison sentences for people as young as 12, a contentious reform that follows other ...