Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...

For the first time in history, poachers have been successfully convicted for killing and trafficking a wild lion, with the prosecutors in Zimbabwe using DNA forensics to prove guilt. Two men ...

Anthropic might have misgivings about giving the US military unfettered access to its AI models, but some startups are building advanced AI specifically for military applications. Smack Technologies, ...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will meet with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon this week. The two organizations have clashed as they have tried to negotiate ...

A man has been convicted in the 1982 rape and murder of a young girl in Cloverdale, California, after investigators were able to use a cigarette to link him to the crime. "This guilty verdict is a ...

Indian AI lab Sarvam on Tuesday unveiled a new generation of large language models, as it bets that smaller, efficient open source AI models will be able to grab some market share away from more ...

At a glance, the two large B2B companies were almost identical. Both sell complex, multi-year technology services; they compete for many of the same enterprise customers. Sales stages, forecasting ...

Allegheny County’s longest cold case for an unidentified victim has been solved using DNA technology. On Wednesday, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office announced the body of an unknown ...

Scientists have discovered that a protein once thought to simply help load a factor necessary for the copying of DNA, actually plays a key role in ensuring fast and reliable replication—an insight ...

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 ...

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery. By Carl Zimmer In 2024, two scientists from Google DeepMind ...