From creation myths to political omens, different cultures have had vastly different interpretations of the dramatic natural ...

Philip Marsden’s latest book ‘Under a Metal Sky’ excavates the history, science and social-environmental consequences of ...

Science has been through a lot since the long history of the planet Earth. And people have philosophized and thought about it ...

An international team of scientists, including a senior researcher at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, has ...

For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so ...

Two bacteriologists showed that mutations arise spontaneously in bacterial cultures, thereby disproving Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ...

The break up of the supercontinent Nuna transformed the Earth’s surface, creating shallow marine habitats that may have given ...

Matter with “forbidden” symmetries was once thought to be confined to lab experiments, but is now being found in some of the ...

The shattering of Nuna may have built the perfect environment for life to evolve From 1.8 billion to 800 million years ago, ...

By a 60-14 margin, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Faculty Senate has voted that it has no-confidence in the leadership of ...

Earth is as old as the rest as the solar system, but it wasn't always as it is now, this is particularly true of the brief ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...