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

ROCHESTER– Rebecca Hutchinson was on the back of a tractor in southwestern Michigan when she recognized she was an artist.

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 ...

Deep inside Earth, researchers see signs that the solid inner core may be arranged in multiple chemical layers far below.

Christina Guidi of The Aerospace Corporation discusses what it would take to build structures and infrastructure that could ...

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 ...

With nearly eight billion people on the planet, things can feel pretty crowded. Let’s make things a bit tighter by housing ...

Architects also praise rammed earth’s high thermal mass—insulative properties that regulate a building’s indoor temperature.

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

The late Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh often emphasized the interconnectedness of everything in this world. He ...