People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

A century after the Scopes trial, hopeful prospects beckon for teaching the unifying principle of the biological sciences in ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they ...

A recent study at Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo has developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy—organisms carrying extra genome ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

The history of life on Earth is a tale of slow burns and sudden explosions, shaped by environmental upheavals and ...

Have you ever wondered about the science behind our everyday lives, or dreamt of exploring outer space? Science is all around ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech have traced the evolution of life back nearly 2 billion years, revealing slow changes during the ...

Thousands of mounds and hills in Mars’ barren northern plains are full of clay minerals, providing evidence that the rocks ...

Crucial to all life on Earth, the 15th element of phosphorus remains a real puzzle for astronomers. Specialized space ...

Foraminifera, though eukaryotic, have adapted to use chemoautotrophy to enable them to survive where oxygen and sunlight are ...