We know about DNA on Earth. What would carry the genetic code elsewhere? In a recent paper published in the journal Astrobiology, Steven Benner from the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Life has spent the past few billion years working with a narrow vocabulary. Now researchers have broken those rules, adding extra letters to biology's limited lexicon. Chemist Floyd Romesberg of the ...

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Many MetroSpirituals feel different, but are not sure how or why. Some feel they don’t really belong here. Perhaps it’s because Earth has not always been their home planet. It’s not as farfetched as ...

The mystery of the “non-human” mummified remains found in Peru deepened this week when an analyst claimed that 30% of its DNA is not human — but is rather from an “unknown species.” Controversial ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Zecharia Sitchin says he's willing to stake everything he's written about alien astronauts on DNA tests that could be performed on the 4,500-year-old remains of a high-ranking Sumerian woman. It's the ...

Alien abductions have been rumoured to occur for decades, and now a study has claimed that extraterrestrial beings have been using this method to insert genes into human DNA. The study, which has yet ...

Could the microbes that surround us actually be encoded with interstellar messages from some far-flung race of space aliens? It’s a question that has been posed for decades by some members of the SETI ...

Scientists have succeeded in creating the first organism with 'alien' DNA. In normal DNA, which can be found within the genes of every organism , the twin strands of the double helix are bonded ...

Octopuses are weird. This is not just because they look odd. It’s not because they’re disturbingly smart. It’s because they have a strange power. The ability to edit their own bodies. This has ...