Gilgo Beach killings: Investigators eyeing emerging forensic technique of microbial DNA analysis to help identify Asian victim, DA says

Suffolk District Attorney Ray Tierney said microbial DNA analysis might be useful in getting a more precise time of death for ...
eLife

A retrospective analysis of 400 publications reveals patterns of irreproducibility across an entire life sciences research field

The ReproSci project retrospectively analyzed the reproducibility of 1006 claims from 400 papers published between 1959 and 2011 in the field of Drosophila immunity. This project attempts to provide a ...

Astronomers discover 19 new pulsars by analyzing FAST archival data

Astronomers from Nanjing University in China have analyzed the archival data from the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical ...

First direct evidence of Migdal effect opens new path for dark matter search

In a landmark discovery that bridges nearly a century of theoretical physics, a Chinese research team has successfully ...
NYU School of LawOpinion

Erin Murphy investigates constitutional questions raised when mass data searches produce a small pool of suspects

In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery novel Murder on the Orient Express, the crime in question could only have been committed ...
C&EN

Large language model guides exploration of the dark metabolome

Michael Skinnider and his team have developed DeepMet, a large language model–guided program that can assign a structure to ...