Only a few years ago, Tuesday’s announcement that a glove believed to be connected to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona, had no match to a DNA database would have been a dead end.

How does our DNA store the massive amount of information needed to build a human being? And what happens when it's stored incorrectly? Jesse Dixon, MD, Ph.D., has spent years studying the way this ...

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This ...

Rarely is there a political issue like the Save America Act, which is extremely popular with the American people, but lacks ...

When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s biggest problems. He ranked them inversely by how much money governments were ...

Department of Correction Commissioner Stanely Richards, the first formerly incarcerated person in the role, sits down with ...

Unnecessary remakes and turgid, expensive CGI-fests highlight this list of these most notorious box-office losers ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will meet with the mayor of Minneapolis on Thursday afternoon. Mamdani confirmed the ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Scientists have made the first step towards creating new species in the lab. Researchers have used artificial intelligence to ...

At Davos, the billionaire said his belief that “it might only be us” in the cosmos drives Tesla, SpaceX, and his vision for humanity’s future. Elon Musk proclaimed he’s an alien during a Thursday ...

Scientists and NASA officials insist the object is a natural comet, not alien technology. Recent observations found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it was artificial. The comet made ...