Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...

New genetic research from the University of Padova has added a surprising twist to the mystery of the Shroud of Turin, ...

More than 60 years after its discovery, scientists are still learning surprising ways DNA stores and translates instructions ...

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build ...

There’s more to dna than just the double helix we know and love: under some conditions this familiar molecule can take on ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...