A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The compelling 2021 study tells the ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

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With climate change, wildfires, and human encroachment, our forests are in desperate need of guardians. What is being done to protect our woodlands?

When we dialled couturier Rahul Mishra after his Paris Haute Couture Week show, the conversation opened with astonishment — ...

Every few hundred thousand years, Earth’s magnetic poles flip, turning north into south and south into north. These ...

When scientists observed that these mirror molecules behave just like their natural equivalents they considered that it would be possible to make a whole living cell from them. Mi ...

Protein Shapes Can Help Untangle Life's Ancient History Jan. 15, 2025 — The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of ...

The new year is the perfect time to focus on health and wellness. For many, setting fitness goals and building better habits ...

A recent drought in Panama was so severe that the canal had to reduce traffic. How is climate change impacting Panama -- and how does that ripple out to the global economy?

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

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...