DNA is known to keep its form for centuries, and the researchers found that their tape could store data for more than 345 years at room temperature, or about 20,000 years at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 ...

The dna inside our cells almost exclusively twists in one direction, but the reason for this might be out of this world!

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim returned to Earth on Tuesday (local time) alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey ...

Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing RNA in eukaryotic cells and eventually giving rise to proteins. Scientists ...

This radical new method could preserve our entire knowledge base for thousands of years, in a storage medium the size of a coffee cup.

Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...

Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, who was born and raised in Los Angeles, returned to Earth Tuesday after 245 days in space. Kim and ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

Inside every human cell, six feet of DNA folds into a nucleus that is only a few micrometers wide, yet still manages to ...

Thanks to a new platform, it is evident that the new Kia Seltos has grown in size in all aspects, except for the height, ...