Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

How Life's Building Blocks Took Shape on Early Earth: The Limits of Membraneless Polyester Protocell Formation Feb. 6, 2025 — A recent study investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential ...

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...