China’s most infamous scientist is attempting a comeback. He Jiankui, who went to jail for three years after claiming he had created the world’s first genetically altered babies, says he remains ...

European scientists are turning an aircraft into a laboratory that simulates lunar gravity to prepare astronauts and ...

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After people started testing positive for hepatitis C in a coastal Florida town in December, state officials collected blood from patients, wrapped their specimens in dry ice and mailed them straight ...

On the windowsill of a science laboratory high above the clamor of the Harvard Medical School campus, tidy rows of sunflower, avocado, and lemon plants bask in the afternoon sun. Every day, scientists ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Scientists from the University at Buffalo and the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered “berkelocene,” the first organometallic molecule to be ...

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...

What does a scientist look like? A bright-eyed intellectual donning a white lab coat and goggles? Often, yes. But these days, they could look like a stack of computer servers softly humming away in an ...