It was only taken out of idle curiosity one rainy winter’s day – but the shocking result of a DNA test was to force two women and their families to reassess everything they knew about themselves.

"This is becoming less science fiction and more future reality ... Rossi has investigated where the aurochs originated, using DNA from the bones of ancient animals, dating back 50,000 years ...

It is hard to mend a broken heart, but in a few years doctors might be able to do essentially that. Scientists are closing in on ways to help patients grow new heart muscle after a heart attack ...

AI-generated summaries not only improved public comprehension of science but also enhanced how people perceived scientists. I used a popular large language model, GPT-4 by OpenAI, to create simple ...

A study trumpeting the value of applying rigorous standards to scientific research was retracted, in part because the authors didn’t follow their own advice. In the sprawling project, scientists ...

All of those cat videos have to be stored somewhere, and DNA is a great storage medium; it has amazing data density and is stable over millennia. To date, people have encoded information into DNA ...

Yet I believe that change is possible. One way to improve Americans’ trust in experts may be to stimulate their curiosity in science. Those who express elevated interest in new discoveries ...

She has invested hundreds of hours into studying and researching sleep and holds a Certified Sleep Science Coach certification ... appear to other users if your DNA matches with someone else.

Notably, though, the study comes with caveats, and forensic scientists are already aware of the limitations of this test, experts told Live Science. The new research focuses on "DNA mixture ...

Scientists have now sequenced the DNA of those remains ... Martin of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s University Museum in Trondheim, Norway. “There are a lot of these ...

Study co-author Michael Martin, an evolutionary geneticist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology ... New ancient DNA analysis also suggested that the dead man's ancestors came ...

A new study conducted in roundworms finds that a common plastic ingredient causes breaks in DNA strands, resulting in egg cells with the wrong number of chromosomes. A new study conducted in ...