Patients with rare diseases often spend five years or more searching for a diagnosis. Now artificial intelligence is helping some get answers faster. Rachel Hinken long wondered why her son, Oliver, ...

A large genetic stripe python becomes the focus as the keeper carefully collects her latest clutch of eggs. The female remains close while he works to separate the eggs and prepare them for incubation ...

Jay repeatedly hopes for twins, triplets, or a rare two-headed hatchling while opening twenty-six full-term python eggs. The clutch instead produces a varied collection of lavender, tiger, white, and ...

A new California law is expanding the state’s use of DNA technology in missing persons investigations, giving authorities another tool to identify unknown people and revisit unresolved cases. Gov.

A renewed push by Arlington's cold‑case unit has apparently solved one of the city's most brutal homicides, 14 years after police say a woman was stabbed nearly 100 times in her apartment. Arlington ...

The investigation into the 2012 murder of Irasema Chavez, which resulted in an arrest this week, highlights the evolution of DNA investigations. It's one thing to have blood, semen or saliva and a ...

As a genre, the “award acceptance lecture” is little more than a formality and a banality. But there is at least one charming exception to this rule—the talks given by the foremost computer scientists ...

Back at ASMS, where the mass spectrometry community gathers to share ideas, data and new directions for science. [Gustav Ceder] At the 74th American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference in ...

Bob Starr was delighted with his vibe-coded website. “Boomberg” showed how much US tax money is going to tech companies, and Starr launched it online immediately after making it. It wasn’t until ...

A new set of supercomputer simulations published June 5, 2026 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has provided the most quantitatively precise confirmation yet of why binary star ...

The genetic code is central to life. With minor variations, everything uses the same sets of three DNA bases to encode the same 20 amino acids. We have discovered no major exceptions to this, leading ...