Cold weather can kill a weak car battery fast. Learn the warning signs and how to test your battery before freezing temperatures leave you stranded. Winter is when weak batteries get exposed. Cold ...

A study used DNA origami to form 2D fishnet structures on silicon, testing growth conditions and advancing DNA-assisted lithography for optical materials. (Nanowerk News) A dissertation at the ...

Move over, Wordle, Connections, and Mini Crossword—there's a new NYT word game in town! The NewYork Times's recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity fans can ...

Go to the official Strands website, then start by looking for the words with the specified theme. Tap or drag across the letters to pick out a word from the grid. Find 3 words not on the list to ...

Stephen Goff is the Higgins Professor of Biochemistry at Columbia University in New York City. He was a postdoc in Baltimore’s lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge from 1978 ...

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Tech billionaires are investing in startups aiming to edit human embryos. But scientists warn about dangerous mutations. Listen ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to increased knowledge about gene regulation in human cells. How genes are turned on ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 1976, workers excavating a tunnel for the Toronto subway system ...

Humanity is generating data faster than it can be stored, and the hard drives and tape libraries that quietly underpin the cloud are already straining to keep up. As the gap widens between what we ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...