Extracting and purifying DNA is routine now, but the results are not particularly aesthetic.

The closely-watched unemployment rate dropped to a 49-year low of 3.7 percent in September; the report showing an even tighter labor market amid a strong economy added to this week’s brutal government debt sell-off.

Scientists reported an assortment of findings resulting from a sweeping and novel analysis of data from the prenatal tests of 141,431 participants.

A tiny robot developed at Harvard University can walk on land, swim, and walk underwater. Fred Katayama reports.

A wild case of tax evasion involving Chinese movie star Fan Bingbing has ended with a whopping $129 mln in charges. Chris Beddor and Jeffrey Goldfarb discuss the possible implications for Beijing’s broader tax policy.

After early work on the biological basis of depression, Dr. Carroll became a relentless campaigner against corruption among academic researchers.