Over 130 years after his gruesome murders in East London, England, the descendants of his victims are looking to unmask the ...

The surprising discovery of entities smaller than viruses raises profound questions about what life is and how it got started ...

DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the fundamental building block of life. It carries the genetic instructions that dictate ...

Billions of years ago, the molecular building blocks of life emerged from a complex web of chemical and geological processes.

This change in gene expression due to secondhand smoke exposure may make children more vulnerable to disease as adults.

By fusing circular dichroism with high-resolution microspectroscopy and microscopic imaging, this cutting-edge technology is ...

This week at AAAS, PNNL scientists and colleagues discuss phenomics, exposomics, and the factors that influence DNA ...

Researchers around the world are working on new technologies to capture carbon from the atmosphere, but many approaches fall short on one key metric: their ability to scale. Nature, however, has ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered new details about how the human genome produces instructions for creating ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...