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A principle of DNA synthesis that has dominated biology textbooks for decades could be upended. An enzyme has been discovered ...

Researchers say a new AI system can identify disease-causing mutations and explain their biological effects, potentially ...

The Silicon Valley-funded science awards revealed recipients in fundamental physics, life sciences and mathematics categories.

There’s a theory that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” The idea is that Homo sapiens and a cousin species once bred, ...

Mitochondria don’t just generate energy—they also carefully organize their own DNA in a surprisingly elegant way. Scientists have discovered that a long-overlooked phenomenon called “mitochondrial ...

Burj Al Arab has never been a hotel that does things halfway, not when it first rose out of an artificial island in the late ...