For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

What scientists long believed were knots in DNA may actually be persistent twists formed during nanopore analysis, revealing ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Analysis of hundreds of single-cell genomes from Yellowstone National Park shows bacterial species are less cohesive than previously thought.

A sweeping genetic screen reveals how the brain is built and exposes a hidden gene behind a newly discovered childhood brain ...