MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Recent scientific findings have brought to light the existence of ancient organisms, estimated to be around 40,000 years old, ...

The new approach looks at the distribution of molecular fragments in material, allowing for broad surveys in degraded ...

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

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

Scientists uncover new evidence of early life on Earth using advanced molecular analysis and machine learning.

Ancient organisms have been hidden beneath the Arctic for over 40,000 years... until now. To undertake this investigation, lead author Tristan Caro from the University of Colorado Boulder and his team ...

During a day at the beach, it’s common to see people walking up and down the shore collecting seashells. As a paleontologist ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

Using AI and advanced chemistry, scientists uncovered 3.3-billion-year-old chemical traces that mark the earliest evidence of ...

RNA usually breaks down quickly, often within hours after death. Before this study, the oldest recovered RNA came from a ...