"You Couldn’t Make This Up" Dept. -DNA Tests Reveal Hitler Descended from Jews and Africans
The DNA tests on relatives of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler show he was probably descended from Jews and North Africans. Journalist Jean-Paul Mulders with the...
New Tech: Self-Assembling 3D Nano-Structures from DNA
Harvard Medical School’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute team have constructed a self-assembling nanodevice from single-stranded DNA using a design principal known as...
Did "X-Woman" Share Ancestry with Neanderthals and Modern Humans?
Scientists say a third hominin group may have co-existed with early Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. A DNA sample taken from an ancient pinky bone that belonged to...
New Tech: DNA Robots
Nanomachines made of DNA could one day assemble complex–and tiny–electrical and mechanical devices. DNA’s structure and ability to bind with...
Facebook and Blackberry to Ping Paris!
We’ll always have Paris! Oui…As part of a Facebook campaign from BlackBerry, a two-story-high phone will display messages and...

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