A team at UT Southwestern Medical Center has identified a structural trick that lets viruses translate their genetic code inside human cells, even when that code is riddled with “bad” codons the host ...

Congress took steps on Wednesday toward blocking changes to D.C.’s local tax code, even as District officials warned it could wreak havoc on tax season and smash a hole in the city’s budget. The House ...

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the ...

G.O.P. leaders succeeded in pressuring fellow senators who initially supported the measure that would have limited President Trump’s military authority in Venezuela. By Robert Jimison and Megan ...

A newly discovered vulnerability may enable malicious validators to omit the hash field when posting blocks, leading to validator crashes and slowing block production. Update Jan. 12, 7:15 am UTC: ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. By experimentally testing nearly 1,000 DNA switches in human ...

From VVIP zones in Delhi to safe houses and drone labs in Kashmir - the NIA's crackdown deepens. Shiv Aroor explains how key arrests like bomber aide Amir and drone-modifier Wani reveal a broader ...

Block's chief technology officer, Dhanji Prasanna, says clean code doesn't make great products — solving real problems does.illustration by Cheng Xin/Getty Images In most engineering circles, clean, ...

Dhanji Prasanna is the Chief Technical Officer of fintech company Block, which runs Cash App and Afterpay. On a podcast, Prasanna said that engineers should focus on purpose over perfect code. Block ...

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 ...