One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

The deeper question with respect to understanding the extraordinary events of the mid to late 19th and early 20th century is what happened socially or environmentally to allow for the extraordinary ...

Is life as rare as we once believed? A new Penn State study suggests that intelligent life is more likely than previously ...

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Two BGSU students and their professor will spend much of spring semester in Antarctica studying undersea volcanoes.

What if time is not as fixed as we thought? Imagine that instead of flowing in one direction -- from past to future -- time could flow forward or backward due to processes taking place at the quantum ...

A study warns of abrupt deoxidation, a phenomenon that will put an end to life on Earth. When and why will this happen?

A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

A new study reveals that the Earth's inner core is undergoing a structural transformation. A new study by USC scientists, ...

However, humans will go extinct at some time, because extinction is what happens to all species. However, there are signs that humans will go extinct soon, in geological terms. In The Decline and Fall ...