To use this evidence, investigators typically must grow the larvae until adulthood in a laboratory setting and then identify ...

Investigators searching for Savannah Guthrie’s mom, Nancy Guthrie, are turning to similar technology once used to capture convicted murderer Bryan Kohberger. A press release issued on Tuesday, ...

Scientists usually study the molecular machinery that controls gene expression from the perspective of a linear, two-dimensional genome—even though DNA and its bound proteins function in three ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — Investigators looking to track down Nancy Guthrie’s suspected kidnappers are turning to a relatively new technology that has been attributed to solving some of the most prolific ...

Few pests eat away at farm profitability as much as soybean cyst nematode (SCN). Causing at least $1.5 billion in yield losses annually, it's soybean's single biggest threat. Unfortunately, soybean's ...

Detective Shaun McCarthy has worked on a lot of cases in his more than 40 years with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. “I was 10 years as a street gang detective, and now I’m in my 23rd ...

In 2021, just months after the first COVID vaccines debuted, concern was growing about an exceedingly rare but sometimes deadly outcome of certain shots. Two related vaccines—one from AstraZeneca and ...

With such a small risk of illness, does this type of embryo selection border on eugenics? By Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah has been The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist since ...

Federal and local authorities will use genetic genealogy to analyze DNA found at Nancy Guthrie’s home as the ongoing investigation into her possible abduction stretches into its third week. The ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — A Q-tip, a tissue and a pizza crust. To investigators, this seemingly innocuous trash was DNA-laden treasure, helping crack the cases of the University of Idaho murders, the Golden ...