Work has begun on a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life from scratch, in what is believed to be a world first. The research has been taboo until now because of concerns ...

Anthropologist Carla Handley is sitting cross-legged in a mud-walled house in a Kenyan village called Merti. She's meeting with a man dressed in a flowing blue robe and a woven cap of red and white.

NASA engineer turned YouTuber Mark Rober has teamed up with scientists from California’s Salk Institute and Brigham Young University to create the smallest ‘Nerf Gun’ models in history, one of which ...

Scientists today released what they say is the biggest-ever artificial-intelligence (AI) model for biology. The model — which was trained on 128,000 genomes spanning the tree of life, from humans to ...

Naming the Dead is a six-part true-crime documentary that premiered on August 3, 2025, with the recent episode airing on August 31, 2025. The series aired on National Geographic and streamed on ...

In human cells, there are about 20,000 genes on a two-meter DNA strand—finely coiled up in a nucleus about 10 micrometers in ...