A large genetic stripe python becomes the focus as the keeper carefully collects her latest clutch of eggs. The female remains close while he works to separate the eggs and prepare them for incubation ...

Jay repeatedly hopes for twins, triplets, or a rare two-headed hatchling while opening twenty-six full-term python eggs. The clutch instead produces a varied collection of lavender, tiger, white, and ...

I was pregnant with my first baby when my grandmother died. The last time I saw her, she had moved into an assisted-living facility where all of her worldly possessions were condensed down to two ...

Anthropic's Claude Code has tool that can help identify China-linked users Anthropic has accused Alibaba of illicitly extracting its AI model capabilities U.S. and China locked in frantic race to ...

For years, social media giants controlled what users saw in their feeds. While people could follow accounts, like posts or hide content they didn’t enjoy, recommendation algorithms controlled what was ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. American children lined up for the world’s first measles ...

A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers stumbled upon a bizarre genetic code in a microscopic pond organism.

The genetic code is central to life. With minor variations, everything uses the same sets of three DNA bases to encode the same 20 amino acids. We have discovered no major exceptions to this, leading ...

Some 30 years ago, the mathematician Peter Shor took a niche physics project — the dream of building a computer based on the counterintuitive rules of quantum mechanics — and shook the world. Shor ...

Anthropic accidentally leaked part of the internal source code for its coding assistant Claude Code, according to a spokesperson. The leak could help give software developers, and Anthropic's ...

The asteroid Ryugu imaged by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft in 2018 JAXA / Kevin M. Gill via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-2.0 The asteroid Ryugu, millions of miles away from Earth, might not look that ...