“Nearly all civilizations have their own origin or creation myth. Now we can use archaeogenetics to tell a global story...

For the first time, scientists have synthesized RNA enzymes – ribonucleic acid enzymes also known as ribozymes – that can replicate themselves without the help...

The Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has joined Twitter. The Dalai Lama’s Twitter feed — @DalaiLama — was launched on Monday, a day after he met in Los...

In his new blockbuster Avatar, director James Cameron places his bet squarely on the “life as carbon-based DNA” camp. With NASA’s Kepler mission showing...

Scientists Decode Genomes of Five Africans, Including Archbishop Tutu The complete genomes of five southern Africans have been decoded, almost doubling the number of published...