A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Scientists have uncovered the earliest chemical evidence of life on Earth in a discovery that could revolutionise our ...

Scientists have uncovered the earliest chemical evidence of life on Earth in a discovery that could revolutionise our ...

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 ...

Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists today published fresh chemical evidence of Earth's ...

The study found that early humans passed down tool-making skills for hundreds of thousands of years in Kenya as their climate ...

It used to be that drawing heat from deep in the Earth was practical only in geyser-filled places such as Iceland. But new ...

The Omo-Turkana Basin, where the Omo River drains into Lake Turkana in Africa, has been one of the three most valuable ...

Neanderthals were thought to have structures inside their noses that helped them deal with the cold, but analysis of an ...

A new study uncovered fresh chemical evidence of life in rocks more than 3.3 billion years old, along with molecular traces showing that oxygen-producing photosynthesis emerged nearly a billion years ...

An analysis of the only intact Neanderthal inner nose bones known to exist reveals that our ancient cousins' enormous noses ...