"The discovery opens up completely new interpretations and understandings." Researchers stunned by remnants of ancient ...

From the Library of Alexandria to the lost works of Plato, the world is littered with ancient writings containing long-lost ...

As glaciers and ice sheets retreat, they are exposing objects, organisms, and landscapes that have been locked away for ...

In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure ...

Centuries-old genetic material can solve historical mysteries, from lost species to what killed Napoleon’s army.

Through cutting-edge forensic science and ancient DNA analysis, scientists have solved one of medieval Europe's most enduring archaeological mysteries. The victim, Duke Béla of Macsó, was a member of ...

New research shows RNA is preserved for longer than scientists had realized. This is the oldest RNA ever profiled.

They built four models through which it could distinguish things with biological antecedents from things which lacked them.

Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists today published fresh ...

Most of them come from a subset of viruses called retroviruses, which infect host cells and then trick them into making the ...

D imaging reveals ancient phages virus with features dating back billions of years - and potential to fight today’s dangerous ...

An active underwater volcano off Canada's coast has revealed a vibrant deep-sea habitat, teeming with hundreds of thousands ...