PATASKALA, Ohio (WCMH) — Students at Licking Heights High School are partnering with Amgen to solve mysteries using research-grade technology. Through a partnership with Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE) ...
Investigators linked a 50-year-old Jamaica Plain man to an unsolved killing from 1997 using a sample of his DNA they recovered from spit in a parking lot, a prosecutor said in court Wednesday. Brian ...
UTEP unveils Texas Western Hall, a $110M state-of-the-art learning hub for campus life The University of Texas at El Paso celebrated the grand opening of Texas Western Hall, a 124,725-square-foot ...
One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...
A suspected murderer has been named using DNA from a cigarette butt, 20 years after a woman was killed at a seafront shelter. The attack was thought to be sexually motivated and two suspects were ...
A decades-old New Hampshire cold case has been solved with modern DNA testing, authorities said Monday. Judith Lord, 22, was found dead in her Concord apartment on May 20, 1975 when a staff member ...
All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics-meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...
Gregory Thompson admitted to sexual battery and conspiring with his wife to send false confession letters from a dead man. Gregory Thompson, 64, pleaded guilty to sexual battery and tampering with ...
A serial rapist was identified this week as the monster who raped and killed a 9-year-old girl in the choir loft of a Catholic church in Pennsylvania, closing a cold case that vexed authorities and ...
With her picture on his phone's lock screen, JonBenét Ramsey's father, John, says he still thinks about her every day. It's been nearly 30 years since JonBenét Ramsey was murdered in their Boulder ...
Local investigators working with cutting-edge technology and a Texas-based company are solving decades-old murders, identifying unknown remains and bringing closure to families who never expected ...
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 ...