Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

A new rapid test for hepatitis C could help identify many more patients who could be cured of the deadly disease, but its use ...

Quantum technology moves from lab to life, but widespread use remains years away by Meredith Fore, University of Chicago edited by Stephanie Baum, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors' notes ...

Biologists mapping the human body have long assumed that every major kind of microscopic life inside us already had a place ...

The medical examiner's office investigates approximately 40,000 deaths per year in New York City. Its molecular genetics laboratory, founded by Dr. Yingying Tang in 2003, is the only one of its kind ...

ALS is a debilitating paralytic disease characterized as the death of upper and lower motor neurons. Fortunately, ALS is relatively rare, with an incidence rate of 1.6 per 100,000 adults, resulting in ...

As PFAS remediation test plan seeks approval, Fort Edward residents fear another environmental disaster like the one they ...

Jackson is an undergraduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder, pursuing degrees in Chemical and Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. A lifelong mountain biker who grew up ...

Tiiny AI argues that today’s real AI bottleneck is not computing power but our reliance on the cloud. GTM director Samar Bhoj says, “intelligence shouldn’t belong to data centers, but to people.” By ...

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A new generation of aging tests is moving out of specialist labs and into everyday life, promising to tell you how old your ...