Newly recognized patches of undeveloped grassland are accidental time travelers from a distant past, and they offer answers ...

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in ...

A quest to discover new antibiotics is taking a Cal Poly biochemistry research team back in time millions of years as they ...

They built four models through which it could distinguish things with biological antecedents from things which lacked them.

Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints ...

Washington, DC— Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found ...

By piecing together historical records, topographic maps, and satellite imagery, the research team covered more ground than ...

Researchers say they have recovered RNA from the remains of a woolly mammoth that lived roughly 39,000 years ago.

New research shows RNA is preserved for longer than scientists had realized. This is the oldest RNA ever profiled.

Researchers discovered that ancient peat bogs grew rapidly when the Southern Westerly Winds suddenly shifted thousands of ...

The goo, which is heavily alkaline serpentinite mud, contained lipid biomarkers, supporting the theory that early life began ...