A traditional cassette tape holds roughly 10 to 12 songs on each side, but 328 feet of this DNA cassette tape could hold the ...

By combining the information storage capabilities of DNA with a design inspired by a cassette tape, researchers have created ...

The lentils now grown in the Canary Islands have a history that stretches back almost 2,000 years on the site. This is shown ...

In Garland, there's a forensic laboratory with a team of scientists playing a vital role in helping the criminal justice ...

Our increasingly digitized world has a data storage problem. Hard drives and other storage media are reaching their limits, ...

Scientists in Tokyo have uncovered “Inocles,” massive strands of extrachromosomal DNA hidden inside bacteria in human mouths.

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps share 98.8% of their DNA. But is this actually true? And what does "similar ...

State officials, lawmakers and first responders got a behind-the-scenes look of the Connecticut Forensic Science Laboratory ...

Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Google is celebrating the start of the 2025-26 school year with a DNA-themed Doodle on Wednesday.

Scientists in China have developed an experimental “DNA cassette tape” to address the global data storage crisis.

Volcanic eruptions on the remote island of Nishinoshima repeatedly wipe the land clean, giving scientists a rare chance to study life’s earliest stages. Researchers traced the genetic origins of an ...

Mitochondria act as energy factories in cells and have their own, separate DNA. Mutations to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have ...