A research team has demonstrated that spectroscopy combined with partial least squares regression (PLSR) can accurately ...

A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now ...

University researchers uncovered that dipeptides, basic protein building blocks, played a central role in shaping the genetic code. By analyzing billions of sequences across species, they found ...

The skull reconstruction points to an Asian lineage that includes Homo longi and the mysterious Denisovans. It essentially ...

Scientists analyze 4.3 billion dipeptides across species to trace genetic code evolution and early protein development.

Volcanic eruptions on the remote island of Nishinoshima repeatedly wipe the land clean, giving scientists a rare chance to ...

A groundbreaking new study suggests that Homo sapiens could have begun to emerge over one million years ago - pushing back our species’ origins by some 400,000 years compared with genetic estimates.

New genus and species of plant discovered, Ovicula biradiata, is called a "woolly devil" because it appears to have tiny ...

A study published in the journal Science on Friday revealed that a reanalysis of an ancient human skull fossil, unearthed in Hubei province and dating back more than 1 million years, may rewrite the ...