CANBERRA, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Fossilized footprints discovered in Australia's Victoria have revealed that reptiles may have walked the Earth up to 40 million years earlier than previously thought, ...

A recent study from researchers at the University of Toulouse has revealed a fascinating insight into the origins of life on ...

For the first time in its 144-year history the Natural History Museum dedicates an exhibition to the wonders of space ...

Eukaryogenesis occurred suddenly, driven by the growing length of genes and the limitations on producing longer proteins. An ...

It’s 9 a.m. on Monday morning, and I’m on the sixth floor of Sterling Hall at UW–Madison. Here, in the newly formed Wisconsin ...

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but usually over short distances across the DNA sequence, with the on/off switch ...

A new NASA and Toho University study, utilizing supercomputers, projects Earth's habitability timeline, revealing the eventual demise of life due to the Sun's increasing heat. This gradual process ...

A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans.

A new paper written by a theoretical physicist at Howard University claims that aneural eukaryotic cells could process ...

The biodiversity of Earth's oceans is disproportionately concentrated in coral reefs—the vibrant undersea ecosystems where ...

“Musk: And eventually, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the sun. It's gradually expanding, we do at some point have to be multi-planetary civilization because Earth will be incinerated ...

SPHEREx will take approximately 3,600 images per day over the next two years as it systematically surveys the entire sky. Launched on March 11, SPHEREx has spent the last six weeks undergoing ...