Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

New research shows early humans relied on many plant foods. They ground seeds, cooked roots, and used simple tools long ...

Imagine never being able to dream of landing on Mars or traveling to Saturn. Not because it's impossible to get there, but ...

University of Alberta geochemists have discovered a missing piece to one of the great mysteries of science—the origin of life ...

Their ancient survival technique, born during 13th-century invasions and refined across centuries of borders, lets them ...

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

Before humans ever walked the planet, Earth was home to some of the strangest and most terrifying creatures in history — and we narrowly missed sharing the world with many of them. From 10-foot terror ...

Surface-bound gels may have offered the structure and chemistry needed for life to take hold on Earth—and possibly elsewhere.

Recently, astrophysicist Avi Loeb claimed that 3I/ATLAS boasts a “heartbeat”-like pulse that could provide evidence of the ...

The historians who want to know how our ancestors experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow ...

Abiotic chemistry in Earth’s atmosphere could have generated biologically important organosulfur molecules as life was ...