WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have recovered the oldest-known RNA, a molecule necessary for most biological functions, from a woolly mammoth that inhabited Siberia about 39,000 years ago, showing ...

GAAP net loss increased to $46.5 million, primarily due to a $25 million non-cash charge related to forbearance warrant issuance from the term debt amendment. Management cited ongoing manufacturing ...

There’s something about the universe that does that to us. It reminds us we’re part of something much bigger than our daily ...

New research suggests that kissing probably predates humanity and evolved between 16.9 million and 21.5 million years ago, after the ancestor of the great apes split from the lesser apes, or gibbons.

Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised by other early humans like Neanderthals and ...

From around 2.8 to 2.7 million years ago, a wetter floodplain environment transitioned to a drier landscape provided primarily by seasonal river channels, with mean annual rainfall ranging from about ...

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...

Eros appears to buzz the Andromeda Galaxy, courtesy of a livestream hosted by the Virtual Telescope Institute in partnership ...

Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...

Newly analyzed Arctic fossils show that marine ecosystems recovered astonishingly fast after the “great dying.” More than 30,000 teeth, bones, and other fossil fragments from a 249-million-year-old ...

Kylie M. Cairns receives funding from the Australian Dingo Foundation, the Australia and Pacific Science Foundation, the ACT government and donations from the general public. She is a director of the ...