CRISPR is a powerful DNA-editing tool that has underpinned huge advancements in human health care in the last decade. It is a precision tool, but is not perfect, and misplaced DNA edits can compromise ...

This haunting CCTV image shows a seven-year-old girl being driven to her death by a FedEx driver who abducted her while ...

Over his 34 years in prison, Shawn Tanner always maintained he was not guilty of murder, insisting on his innocence right up until his death in 2022. Now a years-long legal battle will grant his final ...

A protein tied to ALS and dementia may have a much bigger role in disease than scientists realized. Researchers found that TDP43 controls a key DNA repair process, but when the protein becomes ...

A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil. When you purchase through links on our ...

A new study adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests asteroid impacts played a critical role in the emergence of life on our planet. Reading time 3 minutes Early Earth was a brutally hot, ...

All five of the main ingredients for DNA and RNA have been found in samples from the asteroid Ryugu. This strengthens the idea that asteroids may have brought the ingredients for the first living ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists are trying to sequence the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci to identify if the remains at his interment site really are his. The project began ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, ...

Police were called out in Coronado on Tuesday afternoon when 911 dispatchers got a call about a bicyclist involved in a collision with a car. The crash occurred after 1:30 on the southbound Silver ...