In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a ...

New tech lets scientists extract DNA from old grasshopper collections without damaging the specimens. This unlocks evolutionary data previously inaccessible due to DNA degradation.

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

In A Nutshell Johns Hopkins researchers developed a blood test that catches 81% of stage IA lung cancers (the earliest, most ...

The search for Today anchor Savannah Guthrie’s mother is still underway, as authorities prepare for another ransom-note ...

Researchers describe a rare type of gene family, known as “universal paralogs”, that provides insight into evolutionary history predating the last universal common ancestor of all life. Detailed ...

Westwin Elements claims its proposed nickel refinement process will produce no liquid or solid waste, raising concerns about ...

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor.

From satellites and surveillance systems to precision-guided munitions and fighter jet engines, critical materials are at the ...

Mass spectrometry (MS) has long been a cornerstone of chemical and biological analysis, but in biotech and biomanufacturing, it is now experiencing a renaissance. As drug modalities diversify—peptides ...

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ancestor" represents the ...