The global crisis of diminishing biological diversity is challenging our current ability to monitor changes in ecosystems.

Natural spiderwebs are good at capturing DNA from the environment, but artificial webs are cheap and provide better control – ...

In 1993, 15-year-old Melissa Lee was found murdered in her home a crime that shook her small community and left investigators baffled. For decades, the case went cold. Then, in 2020, a breakthrough in ...

Naked mole-rats are one of nature's most extraordinary creatures. These burrowing rodents can live for up to 37 years, around ten times longer than relatives of a similar size. But what is the secret ...

In the 24 years since 9/11, Diane Keating has never given an interview. Why now? “People and families need to know they are still looking,” she told Spectrum News. Nearly a quarter of a century on, ...

Faulty versions of the LMNA gene can cause a wide range of health problems, including heart muscle disease (dilated cardiomyopathy) and muscle weakness (muscular dystrophies). Many of these diseases ...

EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 has ordered what is certain to be a controversial documentary that analyzes a sample of Adolf Hitler’s DNA. Blink Films is making Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator. Blink has ...

The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories. “It’s ...

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For more than 40 years, the person responsible for the brutal rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl on Long Island has eluded capture. DNA from a smoothie straw, prosecutors say, could now be the key ...

Ahead of a potential meeting between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Beijing dropped a bombshell: China was further restricting access to the supplies that American companies need for ...

President Trump threatened a 100% additional tariff on China after Beijing placed new restrictions on the export of rare-earth minerals. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Reuters President Trump has been trying ...