An open letter, In Support of Mandatory Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening and Recordkeeping, published late on the evening of June 3, 2026, and signed by life sciences researchers, technologists, ...

Nearly all known life builds proteins from the same alphabet of 20 canonical amino acids. Strung together in different orders, those building blocks form the proteins that make cells work. In a new ...

Reports are emerging of black rain falling over parts of Iran in the hours after US-Israeli airstrikes on oil depots on the weekend, with some outlets describing it as “acid rain”. As an atmospheric ...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought the term "Polymerase Chain Reaction testing" into the mainstream. The PCR method is a type of nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) that detects a pathogen by finding ...

In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would later reshape biology and our understanding of life itself. A ...

Sergio Perez testing for Red Bull during the 2022 preseason F1 test in Barcelona. LLUIS GENE / Getty Images After a short offseason and the biggest set of car design rule changes in recent history, ...

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for ‘The Copenhagen Test’Peacock’s The Copenhagen Test starts as a slick spy thriller, then folds into some rather dark, brutal sci-fi ideas about ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: At first glance, Peacock’s The Copenhagen Test looks like a classic espionage thriller. But by its eight-episode finale, it’s something much darker: a psychological ...

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for The Copenhagen Test, Season 1. In an interview with Collider, Melissa Barrera, Sinclair Daniel, Brian d’Arcy James, Kathleen Chalfant, and Mark ...

Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra is a rapid test that probably reduces the time taken to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and the time from diagnosis to starting treatment. Using Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra does not reduce ...

Since the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was identified in 1983, roughly 91.4 million people around the world have contracted the virus and an additional 44.1 million have died from related causes ...