A study shows that electrical charges in sprays of water can cause chemical reactions that form organic molecules from inorganic materials. The findings provide evidence that microlightning may have ...

Scientists have found a rare life "oasis" where plants and animals thrived during Earth's deadliest mass extinction 252 ...

More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing land minerals and then depositing them in the ocean, according to a ...

You know the saying, “What’s yours is mine”? Well, it seems like that might be true for more than just your husband’s socks.

Namely, a group of primitive amphibians called the temnospondyls. They may have survived the Great Dying by feeding on some ...

A study finds that microplastics are damaging the photosynthesis of plants, threatening global food security and increasing ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has received a three-year, $2,999,998 million grant from NASA to identify and ...

14 in the journal Science Advances. "It suggests that the evolution of complex life may be less about luck ... Earth is extremely low. In the new study, a team of researchers that included ...

Among 289 million adults in 18 European countries, more than 16 million years of life were lost from 2020 through 2022 due to ...