How life began on Earth is one of the biggest remaining questions in science. Now, NASA has taken a major step towards ...

Bennu is believed to have originated from the shards of a much larger world. Curiously, asteroid Ryugu, sampled by the ...

Retired astronaut and current Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) celebrated NASA ’s “pretty exciting” announcement on Thursday after ...

The DNA inside our cells is constantly being damaged, and one of the worst kinds of damage is a double-strand break-when both sides of the DNA helix are cut at once. Healthy cells can normally fix ...

The Oxford Student discusses a potential new gene therapy that shows promise in treating Huntington's disease.

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NASA’s Bennu samples have revealed life-linked sugars, a mysterious gum-like substance and even grains of ancient stardust.

The DNA inside our cells is constantly being damaged, and one of the worst kinds of damage is a double-strand break—when both sides of ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – December 3, 2025) Fusion oncoproteins arise when a gene fuses with another gene and acquires new abilities.

NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists discovered glucose, the human body’s main source of energy, as well as the critical ...

Scientists led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University in Japan found sugars essential for biology on Earth in the Bennu ...