NPR's Juana Summers talks with Science correspondent Richard Stone about recent developments in the search for Leonardo da ...

Before Watson and Crick basked in Nobel glory, before The Double Helix mythologized their genius, there was the photo. Photo 51 — crisp, clear, and groundbreaking — captured by Dr. Rosalind Franklin, ...

What if a single Renaissance drawing could reveal not just who made it, but the biological traces of Leonardo da Vinci ...

Evo is a large language model that is not trained on words but on the genomes of millions of microbes. It can accurately predict the effects of mutations. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

In human cells, there are about 20,000 genes on a two-meter DNA strand—finely coiled up in a nucleus about 10 micrometers in diameter. By comparison, this corresponds to a 40-kilometer thread packed ...