Running out of space on your phone? Don't upgrade your cloud-storage subscription just yet. Scientists in China have discovered that images, text files and other digital data can be stored in strands ...

Moss quietly collects DNA from animals, plants, and microbes, offering a simple way to track biodiversity without harming ...

Scientists have created an entirely new kind of DNA with eight chemical letters instead of four — and it still forms a double helix. This synthetic system, called hachimoji DNA, behaves like natural ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

The Ocean Genome Legacy Center and other biorepositories like it are increasingly crucial to climate change research as ...

Can DNA testing correct wrongful convictions after death? Explore the legal meaning of posthumous DNA testing and what it ...

Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...

Holiday moss is turning out to be more than a rustic backdrop for candles and nativity scenes. By trapping fragments of ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

The origins of domestic cats — centuries before they conquered the world’s sofas and internet memes — have long been murky. Now, ancient DNA is helping to fill in the blanks, and the findings shake up ...

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have discovered that moss acts as a natural trap for environmental DNA. This ...