Now, as we embark on the second quarter of the 21st century, what could Rhode Island look like in 2050? The staff at The ...

With a storage capacity of 36 petabytes, a DNA-based cassette tape can hold every song every recorded, and it could be on the ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered crucial insights into how an emerging class of antiviral drugs works.

University of Otago scientists are harnessing the power of peptides—the body's own tiny protein molecules—for a spray to help ...

Good manners never go out of style, but they do occasionally need to be refreshed. In workplaces everywhere, that refresher couldn’t come sooner. In the decade since the previous edition of “Emily ...

The microbial toxin colibactin has just the right shape to snuggle up to DNA — but its embrace is unfortunately more cancerous than cozy. Colibactin is produced by bacteria in the gut and causes ...

In November and December 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, went "off the rails" in court after a DNA test revealed he was not King Charles III's son.

Angie Claudio-Rodriguez was raised Catholic but felt a “deep connection” to Judaism she never understood. Throughout her life, family members told her different things about her heritage, said Claudio ...

Scientists at Northwestern Medicine have developed a new genetic risk score that predicts who is most likely to experience irregular or dangerous heart rhythms. The test merges several types of ...

Cancer continues to be one of the world's top causes of death, partly because of delayed discovery of the disease. But according to a recently released study, a simple blood test may be able to ...

A woman who underwent a DNA test to find out more about her ethnicity was shocked when the results revealed details about her biological father and the family she never knew she had. Christina, from ...

Millions struggle with depression and anxiety, often enduring long waits for effective treatment. Scientists in Sweden, Denmark, and Germany are developing a genetic test to predict which medications ...