Paul Hawken’s survey of carbon science is extensive, sound and frequently fascinating, a fine example of popular science ...

In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

What drives us to send probes throughout the Solar System and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a still portrait by tracing where your ancestors moved across the globe over time. The statistical method can also be used ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...

Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

Stromatolites: You Can't Spell Mold Without Old One of the big problems with Kelvin's estimates for the age of the Earth was ...

Globally, Indigenous peoples steward about 20% of the Earth’s land. That land contains 80% of the planet’s remaining ...

The geographic location of the Antarctic enables science that is less suitable elsewhere on the planet. An example of this is ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, ...

The position of this Great Filter, as he named it, is critically important as we contemplate the future of humanity. If the ...

Life needs sufficient phosphorus. However, the element is scarce, not only today but also at the time of the origin of life. So where was there sufficient phosphorus four billion years ago for life to ...