Scientists have long dreamed of discovering the alchemy by which chemicals can be turned into life. On Wednesday, a team at the University of Minnesota announced that it had taken a major step toward ...

World Cup fever has America in its grip as the international soccer tournament grinds steadily toward the final. But a new study highlights a darker side to the sport: the toll soccer can take on the ...

Netflix built an extensive genre taxonomy for its catalog: hundreds of specific categories covering everything from Brazilian crime drama to 1970s sci-fi to independent films shot in black and white.

How did scientists determine that DNA is the hereditary material? Groundbreaking experiments by Griffith, Avery, Hershey, and Chase disproved the notion that proteins were genetic material. Through a ...