Researchers working with dried fungal specimens stored at Australia’s National Herbarium of Victoria have identified two new species of fungi by applying DNA sequencing to long-held collections. The ...

Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off the surface? Six years on ...

Researchers are still studying samples of Ryugu collected by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency from its Hayabusa2 mission. After the first papers focused on the composition ...

On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of ...

His method of locating genes in human DNA allowed researchers to find disease-causing genes, and later to map the entire, ...

Two deep-sea amphipod species have been found to live in both hemispheres and share features, according to a new study that ...

Physicists tell us that we can’t travel through time. In contrast, information – and even wisdom – can travel through time, and in both directions. The Age of Enlightenment brought a revolution in ...

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a ...

A woman buried in Roman Iron Age Poland just had her story rewritten - thanks to the wood in her coffin.

Researchers have identified the long-mysterious Toronto “subway deer” as a previously unknown extinct deer related to the ...

We have found ample evidence of crucial molecules in meteorites and asteroids, and new research has just added a bit more. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to ...

DNA analysis reveals a fanged frog scientists thought was one species for nearly 200 years is actually several hidden species ...