Last week, Gov. Rick Perry granted the state's first posthumous pardon to a man who was innocent of a crime for which he had spent 13 years in prison. DNA testing cleared Tim Cole of a rape he did not ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A woman expecting her first child got thinking about DNA, and sparked ...

🛍️ Amazon Prime Day: The best deals chosen by our editors 🛍️ By Adam Kovac Published Nov 24, 2025 9:00 AM EST Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred ...

DNA repair proteins act like the body's editors, constantly finding and reversing damage to our genetic code. Researchers have long struggled to understand how cancer cells hijack one of these ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...