The agency’s budget has grown steadily since the 1960s, fueling an industry that creates lifesaving medicines and attracts ...

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

Carl Sagan famously said that "We're all made of star stuff." But he didn't elaborate on how that actually happened. Yes, ...

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 formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone ...

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...