The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life's beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world ...

In Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass," Alice is stuck in a never-ending race with the Red Queen yet never gains a ...

Accounts from early expeditions to the Seychelles more than 250 years ago described crocodiles as common along the coasts of ...

Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, says authorities broke the public’s trust in the Covid era. Now it’s up to outsiders to restore it.

Don't be fooled by a graph. New research shows that a scientist's policy preferences can influence their results. Look past the model and find the ground truth.

Scientists in Japan have discovered a previously unknown giant virus, offering new insight into this enigmatic category of ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

Researchers developed an AI model that guides material synthesis by predicting multiple viable production pathways.

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Consistent with the general trend of incorporating artificial intelligence into nearly every field, researchers and ...

With the evidence that we have now, it would be a offense for nobody to go there and look, Rick Pettigrew said, it would be a ...

Bill Nye let a packed crowd at the Orange Convention Center know that it’s not a good idea to send a human on a one-way trip ...