How stage was set for biggest prisoner swap since Cold War

With the rise of gene sequencing, doctors can now decode people’s genomes and then scour the DNA data for...

—Will Douglas Heaven Thirteen years ago, as an assignment for a journalism class, I wrote a stupid short story...

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Abandoning fossil fuels and adopting lower-­carbon technologies are our best options for warding off the accelerating threat of climate...

NSO Group has been besieged by criticism and charges of abuse for years. In 2016, the United Arab Emirates...

E. coli thrives in our guts, sometimes to unfortunate effect, and it facilitates scientific advances—in DNA, biofuels, and Pfizer’s...