In the modern era, where phone numbers are portable and geography is less tied to a person’s culture, area codes still hold a surprising amount of social weight. While the seven digits following an ...

New research has uncovered pyramid-shaped structures hidden deep beneath the sands of Egypt. These underground formations suggest a much larger and more complex ancient landscape than we ever imagined ...

University of Oklahoma students took a lesson on Veteran’s Day on how Choctaw Nation citizens helped the United States during war time. A descendant of one of the first Code Talkers from World War I ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

A new language has been found inside us, one that’s not written in DNA’s letters but carved into its very shape. For decades, scientists believed the essence of life was written solely in four ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The majority of plants have leaves, petals and seed structures in spirals that follow the Fibonacci sequence, meaning each sequence is the sum of the ...

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens access to non-coding regions, where most disease-associated genetic variants ...