In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would ...

Albrecht Kossel's Nobel Prize-winning research unveiled the chemical basis of heredity, shaping modern genetics and molecular ...

Is the world of art history on the verge of a revolutionary discovery? Researchers recently rubbed traces of DNA from a ...

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

While the question of the plant’s origin on the mainland is solved, the mystery of why it evolved there instead of Taiwan ...

Hannibal marching his elephants over the Alps is one of history's most legendary moments, and now archaeologists have found a ...

Researchers developed a DNA-scaffolded vaccine that achieves the first step in generating a significant population of B cells that produce broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV.

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered that vertebrates make higher numbers of different forms of ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Could Saudi Arabia rewild the near-extinct Asiatic cheetah using insights from ancient remains found in its caves?

A new investigation shows how chemicals used for decades to make carpets stain resistant have contaminated swaths of the ...

The Georgia carpet industry’s long use of PFAS, known as forever chemicals, polluted drinking water and the environment across swaths of the South.