The gene is found predominantly in Southern Appalachia and may be one of the most powerful cancer-risk mutations ever found.

The conflict underscored the distance between world powers over the United States’ pressure campaign on Iran.

A.I. is already a powerful tool for scientific discovery. Now, some biomedical researchers are teaching it to do even more.

Scientists have discovered a powerful gene-targeting system in viruses. Billions of years old, VIPR seems to predate CRISPR and may be even more powerful.

The face of London in the 1960s is living her best life at the age of 77.

The Arizona politician rose to the second-highest position in the Republican-held Senate caucus thanks to his policy smarts and deft political sensibilities.

The president blasted the rest of the Fed — and kept up his demand for a cut — but spared Fed Chairman Kevin M. Warsh from the criticism.

This is what I see when I look at the picture Bo French hates.

A 35-foot fall didn’t kill Michael Wagner. The nearly 18-year failure of the safety net did. Before he died, he recorded 694 videos explaining how.

One superintendent is trying to apply what he’s learned to other shattered districts — and reckoning with the toll of the disaster on his own life.

The war with Iran revealed just how much influence the world’s biggest oil importer has over prices and other countries’ supplies of jet fuel, gasoline and diesel.

The administration argues that presidential papers are like those of Supreme Court justices.

There has been considerable debate over regulating the artificial intelligence industry, but much of that effort has stalled. Cecilia Kang, a technology reporter for The New York Times, explains why.

The New York Philharmonic’s season started with a barnstorming tour of Manhattan to celebrate Dudamel’s arrival as music and artistic director.

An escalating confrontation on Native land southwest of Tucson threatens to upend decades of uneasy cooperation between the Tohono O’odham Nation and the United States.

Many countries blunted the most painful effects of the energy shock from the war in Iran. But prices remain elevated and risks are multiplying.

Bruce Blakeman is trying to unseat Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, attacking her on the economy, crime and immigration by using Trump-like tactics and A.I.

The party is putting up a costly defense of states and districts that President Trump won easily in 2024. And in places like Georgia, strategists wonder if it’s too late.

The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.