With a new generation of fast and affordable gene sequencers, researchers are better equipped than ever to tackle Earth’s ...

The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

The severity of global warming has long depended on your frame of reference — on what temperature you think was normal for ...

The study shows that color, light, and music interact to shape how listeners emotionally experience the same songs.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Creation,”C. Drout offers some clues. Drout, a professor at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, is a ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone ...

Scientists reveal how iron-rich soil minerals chemically trap carbon using multiple nanoscale bonding mechanisms.

One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin ...

While scientists have long known that iron oxide minerals help lock away enormous amounts of carbon—sequestering it from the ...

Lady Louise Windsor has been described as the Royal Family's "secret weapon" going forward. But who is Lady Louise Windsor?

It’s possible to defy gravity using sound waves, magnets or electricity, but today’s methods can’t hoist heavy items high in ...

SpaceX claims that a Chinese Kinetica 1 rocket launch from Tuesday, Dec. 9 passed within 200 meters of one of its Starlink ...