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Summary List PlacementScientists successfully cloned a black-footed ferret using DNA of a frozen relative that died in 1988 for the first time in US history. Elizabeth Ann was born on 10 December and is a genetic copy of a ferret called Willa, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced in a statement this week. Willa's cells, frozen during the 1980s when DNA technology...

Phosphorus is key in forming DNA and giving rise to life on Earth, but the element is rare in the universe. Scientists don't know how Earth got its phosphorus, but scientists just found phosphorus-carrying molecules forming around newborn stars.  Researchers found the same molecules on a comet orbiting Jupiter. A new study suggests that comets from newborn stars may have delivered the life-giving element...

US President Donald Trump revealed in a press conference Sunday that US forces had taken with them "substantial parts" of ISIS leader Abu bakr al-Baghdadi's body after he was killed in a US forces raid. Trump revealed that "lab technicians" were present at the raid, and some tests were conducted "on site" to establish al-Baghdadi's identity. Other tests are believed to have been conducted...