A white fluid on a 3,300-year-old papyrus was used to make the figure of a jackal slimmer, researchers have found ...

It appears that even the most skilled scribes of ancient Egypt made mistakes. A recent discovery at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has revealed that ancient Egyptian artisans used a correction ...

Plants have special corrective molecules at their disposal that can make retrospective modifications to copies of genes. However, it would appear that these 'Tipp-Ex proteins' do not have permission ...

Ancient Egyptians have been found to have used a 3,000 year-old "Tipp-Ex" like correction fluid to fix artistic errors on ...

First author Mirjam Thielen (left) and last author Elena Lesch (right) with cultures of the model moss Physcomitrium and Head of Department Prof. Volker Knoop with a model of PPR78, one of the ...