Size of Life is an educational website that displays the relative sizes of everything from DNA to entire ecosystems through detailed, hand-drawn animations. Enter the site, and you'll find yourself on ...

They built a cassette tape of DNA big enough to store every song ever recorded. In traditional DNA storage, all the data is mixed together. That’s why it’s so hard to retrieve it. To read one piece of ...

For those you need their minds jogging, Richard is referring to the scene in which Gavin & Stacey star Joanna Page’s ...

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface, where sunlight never reaches, a creature older than dinosaurs has quietly preserved secrets ...

By looking at maggots’ genes and metabolic changes, investigators can better predict time of death, the researchers said.

NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists ...

This month Genome Research publishes a special issue highlighting novel advances in computational biology. In collaboration ...

New 'cassette tape' made of DNA has the capacity to store 36 petabytes of data, which could change the future of digital ...

Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you ...

The vampire squid is a creature straight out of a gothic horror film. It lurks in the deep-sea abyss, cloaked in dark, webbed ...

Archaeologists have proven the existence of a lost ring of pits near Stonehenge, and say it could be Britain's largest ...

The vampire squid genome shows it kept ancient features shared with squids, while octopuses gained major chromosomal changes.