When scientists sliced into a block of Siberian permafrost and pulled out a woolly mammoth nicknamed Yuka, they expected to ...

Ancient DNA has been pulled from a permafrost-preserved woolly mammoth found in Siberia, and scientists are thrilled. They ...

How life begins remains an unsolved question. One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have ...

Sugars essential for life were found for the first time alongside “space gum” on an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, indicating that our universe could be teeming with life, according to new research.

Parents and teachers have been hearing a odd type of spoken word coming from the mouths of children – teens, pre-teens, elementary school students – and you may have heard it at a Thanksgiving table ...

In 2010, tusk hunters scouring a riverbank near Siberia’s Arctic coast discovered the mummy of a juvenile mammoth. The animal, nicknamed “Yuka” after the nearby village of Yukagir, had been frozen for ...

Pfizer’s mRNA flu vaccine outperformed the standard flu shot in a Phase 3 clinical trial, according to results published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The vaccine uses the same ...

Though the phrase, which comes from a song by Philadelphia rapper Skrilla, may not have one specific meaning, its widespread use in youth culture is unmatched. File - The intersection of 67th and ...

Scientists have recovered ancient molecules of RNA from a juvenile mammoth named Yuka, who died 40,000 years ago in what is now Siberia. These biological remnants are providing insight into the last ...

It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist at Stockholm University, first laid eyes upon a special specimen on a lab table in eastern Siberia. "Our Russian collaborators said, 'Come here into this ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Scientists have recovered the oldest-known RNA, a molecule necessary for most biological functions, from a woolly mammoth that inhabited Siberia about 39,000 years ago, ...

In the final moments of Yuka the woolly mammoth’s life, he may have been trying to outsprint a cave lion. Yuka’s hind legs bear scratches — and in his muscle tissue, scientists have detected molecular ...