Viruses are typically described as tiny, perfectly geometric shells that pack genetic material with mathematical precision, ...

You think you know Stonehenge. The iconic rock towers standing against a green field and a gray English sky are one of the ...

A stunning discovery in Roman Britain has revealed fingerprints left on liquid gypsum used to prepare bodies for burial, ...

LifeTracer is not a universal life detector. Rather, it provides a foundation for interpreting complex organic mixtures. The Bennu findings remind us that life-friendly chemistry may be widespread ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

The nitrogen in the gum was found to be in nitrogen heterocycles, which are the building blocks of nucleobases in DNA and RNA ...

DNA–protein cross-links (DPCs) represent a severe form of DNA damage that can disrupt essential chromatin-based processes.

A research team at Florida State University's Institute of Molecular Biophysics and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry ...

Study reveals 20 DNA markers in fast-twitch muscle that predict age within 4 years and explain why sprinting declines before ...

Scientists discovered that the protein RPA plays a critical and previously unconfirmed role in stimulating telomerase to ...

Despite the vast numbers of animal species already identified, the natural world is still capable of springing a few ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.