Despite having plagued humans for millennia, typhoid fever is rarely considered a threat in developed countries today. But ...

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

Scientists have uncovered the oldest chemical traces of life on Earth using a new machine learning method that identifies ...

To search for even older RNA, Pour and his team focused on the permafrost regions of Siberia, where thawing soil has yielded ...

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

Kissing is an ancient trait retained over the course of evolution amongst the large apes, reveal scientists at the University of Oxford and Florida Institute of Technology.

New research suggests the first kiss occurred 16.9-21.5 million years ago between ape ancestors in Africa. Scientists ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected phosphine gas in the ancient brown dwarf Wolf 1130C, a discovery that contradicts years of predictions about how phosphorus behaves in ...

Researchers discovered a prehistoric ecosystem filled with giant marine reptiles, revealing an unparalleled level of food web complexity. Predators that dominated the oceans 130 million years ago were ...

Around 1000 markings on a slab of rock that was once a seafloor during the Cretaceous period may have been made by sea turtle ...

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

Sudden shifts in the Southern Westerly Winds 15,000 years ago - after the last Ice Age - triggered a massive growth of ...