NASA is not often known for making the best use of existing COTS (commercial off the shelf technology) aboard the ISS. Then again, sometimes they are. This is an example of when the agency really ...

Zettabytes—that’s 10 21 bytes—of data are currently generated every year. All of those cat videos have to be stored somewhere, and DNA is a great storage medium; it has amazing data density and is ...

Emerging methods are improving the ability to identify even highly degraded human remains. By Damien Cave Reporting from Hanoi, Vietnam The world is facing an abundance of tragic events that produce ...

The giant DNA loops were discovered through a careful study of saliva samples from 56 volunteers, with further tests ...

A judge in New York rejected a request on 23 September to disqualify the use of cutting-edge DNA sequencing as evidence in a ...

Scientists are trying to sequence the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci to identify if the remains at his interment site really are ...

Champaign, Illinois, has developed a method to isolate genes from microbial DNA samples so small that 20,000 of them would ...

Researchers from the University of Birmingham's Bladder Cancer Research Center have used a new method to detect chemical ...