NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

LEGO has announced a new high-concept set that charts the history of scientific discovery in brick form. The Evolution of ...

Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting ...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile ... Joris Peters, co-corresponding author, Professor of Paleoanatomy, Domestication Research and the ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

The results, which were released on Wednesday in two articles in the journals Nature and Nature Astronomy, suggest a gap in our understanding of the beginnings of life on Earth and perhaps elsewhere, ...

DNA analysis confirmed the identity of the remains ... but a judge declared a mistrial after jurors failed to reach a consensus verdict due to a lack of a body. "The discovery of Jimmie “Jay” Lee’s ...