For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory ...

Scientists have said that in a cosmos filled with trillions of stars, intelligent alien life will form ‘in only a matter of ...

Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. More than 400 miles long, it is the continent's deepest lake and accounts for 16% of the world's available freshwater. Between 2 ...

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the nucleic acid polymer that forms the genetic code for a cell or virus. Most DNA molecules consist of two polymers (double-stranded) of four nucleotides that each ...

DNA replication is the biological process by which an exact copy of a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecule is created and it is the basis for biological inheritance. Each of the two strands of the ...

Using the Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), Russian astronomers have carried out spectroscopic and photometric observations of a cataclysmic variable designated Gaia 19cwm, finding that it ...

Buried beneath Antarctica’s thick ice sheets lies Lake Vostok, a hidden world that has been isolated for 15 million years.