Scientists have demonstrated an “incredibly powerful” ability to manipulate the building blocks of life in two separate studies, BBC News reports. One altered the order of atoms in DNA to rewrite the human genetic code and the instructions for life. The other edited RNA, which is a chemical cousin of DNA and unlocks the information …

An ancient human skull discovered in Papua New Guinea is likely to have belonged to the world’s oldest-known tsunami victim, BBC News reports, citing scientists’ findings. The skull was discovered in 1929 near the town of Aitape and originally attributed to the Homo erectus species, an ancestor of modern humans. However, scientists now say the …

About 130 million years ago, two stars measuring 12 miles across but containing more mass than held in our Sun were locked together. They were spiralling together, in a relatively rare event that lasted only a few seconds and likely ended up with the creation of a black hole. But the event sent out a …

Companies love to claim that they’ve discovered the Next Big Thing in lithium-ion batteries, and Toshiba is the latest to jump on this wagon. Toshiba announced that its next-generation SCiB lithium-ion battery can take some serious abuse and charge at speeds that sound like pure science fiction. Using an anode material made from titanium niobium …

I cut the cable cord roughly three years ago and I’ve never regretted it. I have, however, accumulated a small village of set-top boxes, media sticks, Chromecasts, gaming consoles, and just about any other HDMI-connected rectangle that can spit out a Netflix stream. For the past two weeks, however, I put all of them on …