Jay repeatedly hopes for twins, triplets, or a rare two-headed hatchling while opening twenty-six full-term python eggs. The clutch instead produces a varied collection of lavender, tiger, white, and ...

A new California law is expanding the state’s use of DNA technology in missing persons investigations, giving authorities another tool to identify unknown people and revisit unresolved cases. Gov.

Decades after a pair of young North Texas girls were kidnapped from their neighborhoods in two separate abductions, law enforcement in Plano and Dallas still hadn't identified the man responsible. So, ...

The investigation into the 2012 murder of Irasema Chavez, which resulted in an arrest this week, highlights the evolution of DNA investigations. It's one thing to have blood, semen or saliva and a ...

As a genre, the “award acceptance lecture” is little more than a formality and a banality. But there is at least one charming exception to this rule—the talks given by the foremost computer scientists ...

Back at ASMS, where the mass spectrometry community gathers to share ideas, data and new directions for science. [Gustav Ceder] At the 74th American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference in ...

A new set of supercomputer simulations published June 5, 2026 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has provided the most quantitatively precise confirmation yet of why binary star ...

The genetic code is central to life. With minor variations, everything uses the same sets of three DNA bases to encode the same 20 amino acids. We have discovered no major exceptions to this, leading ...

What happens when you need a deep, expansive app but don't know how to code? I turned to AI, and the results were way better than I could have imagined. I’ve been writing about consumer technology and ...