Trillions of bacteria, fungi, viruses and single-celled organisms travel the globe high in the atmosphere. Scientists are ...

The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world ...

Navrotsky heads up the Navrotsky Eyring Center for Materials of the Universe at Arizona State University. The center ...

Oscar-nominated "Past Lives" filmmaker Celine Song's new film "Materialists" was inspired by the brief time she worked as a ...

A new analysis of the ancient DNA of 42 people from Papua New Guinea reveals that some cultures were remarkably isolated for ...

Fossils from Scotland’s East Kirkton Quarry are now dated to 346 million years ago, offering rare insight into vertebrate ...

The transition of life from the oceans to land is one of the most remarkable events in the history of evolution. Around 450 million years ago, life on Earth made a dramatic leap from the water to the ...

At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how ...

During the years after the Civil War, America embraced an economic philosophy called laissez-faire, celebrating the notion ...

“We demonstrate that environmentally induced epigenetic variation contributes to the inheritance of an acquired characteristic,” the team said, in a paper published in the peer-reviewed life ...

Carbon offers a new way of thinking about planetary crisis, its causes, and solutions. By encouraging us to recover our wild ...

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation's fallen service members, but it's come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and a long weekend of discounts on anything from mattresses to ...