Experiment may help explain the ‘most intriguing causal paradox in biology’ about how early life forms came together about 4 ...

When a bone grows, our bodies’ proteins help provide the structure. When a muscle tears, proteins help rebuild it. When we ...

Six scientists demonstrate in their laboratory that a sulfur compound could have been key to the appearance of the first ...

Chemists at UCL (University College London) have shown how two of biology’s most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic ...

If you've ever wanted to live your life adrift amid a sea of gently glowing succulents, that dream just got a tiny step ...

Earth is so far the only known planet on which life exists—with liquid water and a stable atmosphere. However, the conditions were not conducive to life when it formed. The gas-dust cloud from which ...

Researchers at The University of Osaka have discovered a new type of chiral symmetry breaking (CSB) in an organic crystalline ...

Despite their ubiquity in the world’s oceans, the evolutionary origin of the arrow worm has long baffled biologists – Charles Darwin himself noted their “obscurity of affinities” in 1844. Notably, the ...

Indian-origin leaders are increasingly influential in US politics, holding key positions from the Vice President's office to ...

Having first appeared in Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979), the Xenomorph has come to personify the uncanny and the raw fears of ...

A Great Lakes research vessel had goo leaking from its rudder shaft. Scientists later found it contained previously ...

Scientists have for the first time ever filmed a crucial step that leads to new human life – cracking open a 'black box' of ...