Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...

New analytical methods developed at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have increased our ...

Scientists from Skoltech and the University of Potsdam have developed a physical theory that sheds light on how molecular ...

Working on human pus in a medieval castle, Miescher discovered a substance that would eventually unlock our understanding of ...

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build molecular-scale devices. By borrowing ideas from traditional robotics and combining them ...

A partially overhead image of a portion of a white bathtub that is nearly full of water. The metallic spigot and handles are on the left side of the frame, with tiles extending above the left side and ...

The genetic building blocks of life—formed from the four nucleotides adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T)—are read in groups of three known as codons. While some codons (known as ...

On the far right side of the periodic table, just beneath oxygen, sits a lesser-known group of elements called the chalcogens ...

Yarn used to make the Shroud of Turin may have likely come from ancient India’s Indus Valley region, according to a new DNA analysis of samples from the linen fabric believed to have been used to wrap ...