Microbes were the real culprit of mass destruction of 90% of life which took place hundreds of millions of years back on earth, said researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On analyzing carbon dioxide levels buried in the oceanic water and ...

A 30,000 year-old giant harmless virus which was locked up in the Siberian permafrost has been revived by French scientists. Scientists have revived the virus in a 98-foot-deep sample of permanently frozen soil from coastal tundra in Chukotka, near the East ...