An unidentified DNA sample found on one of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s boots has returned to the heart of the case almost 30 ...

This video starts with a simple question — does life really need DNA? — and then turns it into something much bigger. From RNA worlds and TNA protocells to exotic XNAs, methane-compatible chemistries, ...

Could humans spread Earth life beyond our planet? Astrobiologists explain where extremophiles might survive and why the risks ...

Ian Bailey maintained his innocence until the day he died, but in 2019 a French court convicted him in absentia of murder.

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Something incredible has been hiding in Mars’s frozen deserts. It’s taken over 10 years for one robot to pick it up. But it took an engineering feat and a high-stakes gamble to bring it to light. An ...

Judge Andrew Fishkin's ruling likely ends a months-long ordeal for the California woman, one of thousands adopted from abroad who were never granted citizenship because of bureaucratic loopholes ...

The desolate, wind-swept desert of the Paracas Peninsula on the southern coast of Peru holds one of the most enduring mysteries of the ancient world. In 1928, the renowned Peruvian archaeologist Julio ...

THE sister of Ian Bailey is pleased and relieved that new DNA evidence is likely to clear him of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s 1996 murder. Kay Reynolds was reacting to the letter sent last week by ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

Researchers recovered ancient human DNA from cave walls in Spain and Portugal, showing prehistoric people left genetic traces ...

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