No year-enders this time. I have not recovered enough from what this year inflicted on me to write dispassionately about it. But as the name promises, I am writing the next worst thing: the decline ...

Writers, activists, and scholars reflect on the most urgent books of 2025—from Palestine and caste to climate, queerness, and resistance. Read their picks.

The family said that meeting the team gave them a glimmer of hope, reassuring them that they are not alone in this fight and that justice for their daughter is still possible. Saleem Masih, Shumaya’s ...

Bangladesh is engulfed in violence, and an undeclared government of extremists is effectively in power. Extremists have been ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

A woman's body has been found to consist of varying proportions of male and female cells because of an extremely rare form of ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

What scientists long believed were knots in DNA may actually be persistent twists formed during nanopore analysis, revealing ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

AI maps fleeting DNA quadruplexes, revealing paired structures that control genes in healthy cells and cancer.

DNA analysis reveals the unique genetic story of the Piceni people, a mysterious civilization that thrived in Italy before ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...