Our genome isn’t as peaceful as it looks—some DNA elements are constantly trying to disrupt it. Scientists studying fruit flies discovered that key proteins protecting chromosome ends must evolve ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising genetic workaround that helps cells cope with Friedreich’s ataxia, a rare and devastating disorder. Credit: Shutterstock Scientists discovered that reducing a ...

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Optimization of traffic flow in a road network using MATLAB's Genetic Algorithm. Applied to a nonlinear objective function with equality constraints ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. The accurate treatment of many-unpaired-electron systems remains a central challenge ...

ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

A once-silent wheat gene may hold the secret to growing far more grain from every field. Credit: Shutterstock Scientists at the University of Maryland have uncovered the genetic key behind a rare ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Each year, 263 million people get malaria. But from the parasite's perspective, infecting humans is harder than you might think, and requires completing an epic journey within the tiny body of a ...

More than 2 out of 5 adults in the U.S. are considered obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But what if there was a way to test children to find out if they’re at higher ...