THE process of evolution is quite similar to climbing a flight of stairs. They are both effort-intensive and intentional processes, but they ultimately lead ...

In a rare glimpse into the earliest days of our planet, scientists have discovered remnants of the “proto Earth.” ...

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The Outer Worlds 2 Early Access (October 24): "The Outer Worlds 2 is the eagerly-awaited sequel to the award-winning ...

Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old — after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...

Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...

The words we say can influence how others receive our message and how they perceive us. Author Stefan Fatsis explores the ...

Lemurs first arrived on the island of Madagascar 53.2 million years ago, probably hitching a ride on a vegetation raft from ...

Advances in mass spectrometry and chromatography are enhancing pesticide residue analysis, focusing on exposomics and risk assessment for improved food safety. Ion chromatography is evolving with new ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

At the global level, the study reveals that the United States and the United Kingdom remain the dominant producers of ...

These burrowing animals have a biological mechanism that does the opposite of what it does in humans: it repairs DNA instead ...