One chemistry tweak made mRNA vaccines dramatically safer and more effective—unlocking new potential for fighting disease.

Tentative detections of life-linked molecules in a star’s disk suggest planets may form with the ingredients for life already ...

Mosquitoes kill more people each year than any other animal. In 2023, the blood-sucking insects infected a reported 263 ...

This week, astronomers using the ALMA telescope have made a landmark discovery in the search for the cosmic "seeds of life." ...

Proteins are life's molecular workhorses, doing everything from turning sunlight into food to fighting viruses. They are ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max ...

The origins of life may be rooted in outer space, according to a new study. Astronomers have discovered signs of complex ...

Co-author Dr. Tushar Suhasaria, head of MPIA’s Origins of Life Lab, said: “We recently found ethylene glycol could form by UV irradiation of ethanolamine, a molecule that was recently discovered in ...

Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal on Earth. In 2023 alone, they infected 263 million people with malaria, resulting in ...

A team of scientists, including researchers at UCSD, have developed a gene-editing method to block mosquitoes from spreading ...

Mosquitoes kill more people each year than any other animal. In 2023, the blood-sucking insects infected a reported 263 million people with malaria, leading to nearly 600,000 deaths, 80% of which were ...

Scientists in Denmark got bacteria to do something surprising—they made milk proteins, without any cows or milk.