The new findings strengthen the "RNA world" hypothesis that describes how the first life on Earth could have used RNA instead ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies the highest priority science objectives for the first human mission to Mars, and says searching ...

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This photo taken on April 16, 2025 shows the combination of the Shenzhou XX crewed spaceship and a Long March-2F carrier rocket preparing to be transferred to the launching area. [Photo/Xinhua] ...

So: what were the best works of science fiction published this year? I will start with two new books that aren’t actually new, but have only just been published in English. First up is Ice by Jacek ...

In April 1991, Louis Stodieck watched as the space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At the time, Stodieck was associate director of BioServe Space Technologies, a ...

China’s Shenzhou-21 mission marked another milestone in the nation’s growing space ambitions. Launched late Friday night aboard a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the ...

Our Fourth Annual Life Sciences Masters™ 2025 program will focus on the intersection of intellectual property and the biopharmaceutical industry, and will explore the law, politics, and business of ...

Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial College London found that the spontaneous emergence of life from nonliving ...

A woman who raped, tortured and murdered a 12-year-old girl in Paris three years ago was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV. Dahbia Benkired, a ...

Can AI truly improve your life? As our Try AI column turns one, we look back to find that one of our writers is less trusting than ever, while the other insists that the future has arrived. From the ...

A “world’s first study” has demonstrated that bacterial spores can withstand the extreme forces associated with a space launch. Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne have proved the resilience ...