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Dr. Maroouf is a clinical scientist and analog astronaut. From simulating life on Mars at the Mars Desert Research Station to exploring healthcare technologies for astronauts, Dr. Maroouf shares how ...

A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...

Even if we can't see them, microorganisms are everywhere, inextricably linked to life on Earth at every level. They range from pathogenic bacteria and viruses that can make us sick to the microbes ...

It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the ...

Irving Greenberg, an acclaimed writer and Orthodox rabbi, has influenced practically every facet of American Jewish life. He ...

Marine plastic pollution is escalating, turning the ocean from a life source into a potential death trap. This problem is ...

Among the planets that would get less attention are Venus, Mars and Jupiter. But the planet facing the biggest drop in ...

Researchers say that the Earth's oxygen levels will drop exponentially in the future, ending life as we know it.

In a speech at Monaco's Blue Economy and Finance Forum, the future king spoke in English and French as he declared that ocean ...

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

Research data suggests humans may have nearly gone extinct almost 1 million years ago, but scientists aren't sure why.