Only a few years ago, Tuesday’s announcement that a glove believed to be connected to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona, had no match to a DNA database would have been a dead end.

How does our DNA store the massive amount of information needed to build a human being? And what happens when it's stored incorrectly? Jesse Dixon, MD, Ph.D., has spent years studying the way this ...

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This ...

Rarely is there a political issue like the Save America Act, which is extremely popular with the American people, but lacks ...

Baby food distributed to retail grocery stores in New York and New Jersey, among other states, is being recalled for potential health risks, according to the FDA. IF ...

Department of Correction Commissioner Stanely Richards, the first formerly incarcerated person in the role, sits down with ...

Unnecessary remakes and turgid, expensive CGI-fests highlight this list of these most notorious box-office losers ...

The latest reshuffling of titles available have kept some mainstays ready to be streamed once again while adding in some new options. A chance to revisit a classic like “Independence Day” or ...

In the central Sahara, where sand now buries ancient lakes, scientists have pulled genetic material from 7,000-year-old mummified women and found DNA that does not match any living population. The ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Scientists have made the first step towards creating new species in the lab. Researchers have used artificial intelligence to ...

At Davos, the billionaire said his belief that “it might only be us” in the cosmos drives Tesla, SpaceX, and his vision for humanity’s future. Elon Musk proclaimed he’s an alien during a Thursday ...