A team of experts has proposed storing the DNA of threatened animals in a vault on the lunar surface – Earth's only natural satellite – where conditions are cold enough to preserve the samples.

But the Australian missionary, who has become a naturalised PNG citizen because of the decades he spent doing missionary work in PNG, would not back down. At a meeting for the church clergy in East ...

No matter how powerful generative AI becomes, writer Ted Chiang says it will never create true art. Chiang is one of the most admired science-fiction authors writing today, best known for the ...

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DNA is well-known for its double helix shape. But the human genome also contains more than 50,000 unusual knot-like DNA structures called i-motifs, researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical ...

MultiChoice is commencing production on “My F*k, Marelize,” a feature film inspired by a viral video from Namibia. The announcement was made at this year’s Silwerskerm Film Festival in Cape ...

Here’s your first look at Angelina Jolie in Pablo Larraín’s latest Venice-bound biopic Maria. Larraín directs the film from a screenplay by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders). The pair ...

There are numerous ways to heighten durability to millions of millennia, at the DNA nucleotides and ribose it is possible to swap one, some, or all of the C element atoms at the DNA with silicon ...

A new discovery by researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics (BDR) in Japan upends decades of assumptions regarding DNA replication. Led by Ichiro Hiratani and colleagues ...

While sparse data makes accurate measurement difficult, most would agree violence and lawlessness are increasing in many parts of PNG. The broader context for this violence includes: rural decay ...