The instrument had detected telltale signatures of ancient amino acids in eggshell. Amino acids are the building blocks that ...

Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

But the ingredients for life are present on Bennu’s rocky surface. “We saw a whole bunch of amino acids, 14 of which are in ...

HUMANS have come a step closer to finding aliens after the “building blocks for life” were discovered by scientists on an ...

For many years, scientists believed that organic molecules could not survive in fossils, as the fossilization process was ...