The earliest forms of animal life on our planet continue to fascinate scientists, who are seeking to unravel the mystery of their origins. A team of geochemists from MIT recently provided new ...

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When are AGW denialists, evolution denialists, and other counterfactual obscurantists' claims "competing legitimate interests"? So, you don't regard any of these gaffs in the below partial list are ...

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Newly discovered multi-wavelength view of a stellar eruption on a young Sun-like star is changing how we think about life's ...

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants were just beginning ...

Billions of years ago, Earth’s atmosphere was hostile, with barely any oxygen and toxic conditions for life. Researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute studied Japan’s iron-rich hot springs, ...

The study of young stars like EK Draconis has offered fresh insights into the violent activity of our Sun in its youth. By ...

AFTER THE second world war, Leo Szilard, a pioneering nuclear physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project, decided to move into biology instead: life; not death. But there was a problem. As a ...