Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Woolly mammoth remains, with fur and tissue still in tact, are regularly found entombed in Arctic permafrost. Their discovery has allowed scientists to sequence the mammoth genome and learn intriguing ...

Decoding the identity of biomolecules from trace samples is a longstanding goal in the field of biotechnology, and while next-generation sequencing technologies have made it possible to identify ...

The labs of Julian Sale and Jason Chin at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, U.K., have created two new tools critical for rapid genome construction at ...

DNA-based data storage appears to offer solutions to some of the problems created by humanity’s ever-growing capacity to create data we want to hang on to. Compared to most other media, DNA offers ...

Victoria Gibbon receives funding from the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa their financial assistance towards this research is hereby acknowledged. Opinions expressed, and ...

The 1991 rape and murder of Patricia Scoville horrified the small community of Stowe. And for nearly 14 years, the perpetrator of the gruesome crime went unpunished. Eventually, the killer would be ...