A team of researchers spent years watching their quantum circuits fail before one finally worked. In early 2025, scientists ...

Encoding information in DNA has long seemed like a promising way to secure data for the long term, but so far it has required an expert touch. It turns out that you don’t need to be a scientist to ...

Suchi Rudra is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC, and Vice, among other publications. Storing digital data in RNA? It sounds like science fiction, but it’s not. Researchers ...

In three back-to-back papers and five pages of the April 25, 1953, issue of Nature, seven authors laid out the evidence and interpretation that established the double helical structure of DNA. As ever ...