Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysed chemical fossils from more than 541 million years ago.

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

All living beings emit a strange glow linked to vitality that vanishes when they die, according to a study that may lead to a ...

London | The intensifying hunt for life on Mars has found minerals in a rocky crater that suggest biological activity may have taken place there. NASA’s Perseverance rover dug out mud stones flecked ...

Scientists used artificial intelligence to write coherent viral genomes, using them to synthesize bacteriophages capable of ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of ...

Reservoirs are lifelines for drinking water, food production, and economic growth. But a new study warns that these crucial ...

Researchers who examined data from Perseverance found that the rocks contained organics that could have been the precursors ...

Ever since moviegoers saw the first ‘Jurassic Park,’ millions have wondered if scientists could make a dinosaur in the lab.

In bees, for example, sex differentiation of larvae into queen, worker, or drone is based on an interplay of environmental ...

Astronomers around the world have confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets, a milestone reached in September 2025. Billions more are waiting to be discovered.

Cloned and genetically modified animals are jumping the lab and entering the black market, possibly forever altering our ecosystems.