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

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

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

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 ...

Billions of years ago, the molecular building blocks of life emerged from a complex web of chemical and geological processes.

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

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

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in Chile, dubbed ATLAS, came across the space rock while observing the ...

A retired educator, he’s also an acclaimed artist, writer, poet, creator of soundscapes, armchair scientist and philosopher, ...

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