Breakthrough Listen will scan the the skies with the aid of the MeerKAT Telescope. They are targeting a million nearby stars.

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Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had the curious habit of buying up DNA test kits for his rich, famous and powerful friends, emails released by the Justice Department Friday show.

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Oceana scientist Caitlynn Birch explains how environmental DNA, or eDNA, helps us understand and protect the oceans ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

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Astronauts of the future may be radically different from the rest of us in physiology and psychology. So, to what extent ...

The home DNA kit was supposed to be a novelty, the kind of thing families unwrap at Christmas and laugh about over brunch. Instead, for a growing number of people, that “just for fun” test is ...

A man who adopted a dog from a shelter earlier this year did a DNA test to finally found out what breed she is, and the results were certainly not what he expected. Brett Miller adopted Birdie, a ...

A woman discovered her biological father at age 47 after taking an Ancestry DNA test. The test revealed her father was a man her mother had a brief encounter with in 1976, not the man she previously ...