DNA isn’t just for labs — you can explore it right at home or in the classroom with simple, hands-on experiments. From extracting strawberry DNA with dish soap to modeling the double helix with beads, ...

A stretch of DNA can look static on a screen, just long rows of A, T, C and G. But buried in those letters are small changes ...

Modern biology is awash in data. Scientists can sequence DNA, track gene activity cell-by-cell, map proteins in space, and image tissues at microscopic resolution. However, it is a struggle to put all ...

After centuries of mystery, scientists are edging closer to uncovering Leonardo da Vinci’s biological secrets. A massive ...

An inherited form of blindness directly comparable to a common inherited optic nerve disease in humans has been discovered in ...

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Some of your most important life partners are the mitochondria that power all your cells. You and these little cellular powerhouses are in a 1.5-billion-year-old evolutionary relationship-but ...

The DNA Doe Project identified the remains found by a family on Salmon Creek Beach in Sonoma County in 2022, the sheriff’s office announced Thursday. According to the DNA Doe Project, on June 17, 2022 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off the surface? Six years on from its arrival ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a tough critic of science fiction books and films that explore these topics.