Paleontology, the branch of science concerned with fossil animals and plants, is just one of many subjects Nicholson’s ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...

Scientists are cataloging and analyzing the first samples collected by NASA's Perseverance rover while the agency weighs its ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...