Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists.

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New research is shaking up how we think about evolution, suggesting there's a level of predictability influenced by genes and ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

The entries emphasize chance’s prominent role in evolution. For instance ... weaving illuminating natural history into ...

A new 450-million-year-old arthropod fossil, Lomankus edgecombei, has been uncovered in New York, revealing crucial ...

The origins of the Cambrian explosion, these scientists say, may lie not in life itself but deep in Earth’s interior. If they’re right—if the evolution of organisms really is woven together ...

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