Many explanations for the Fermi Paradox focus on alien superintelligence or cosmic catastrophes, but the real answer might be ...

A Harvard physicist who once accepted evolution without question says a surprising encounter with faith forced him to rethink ...

Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to ...

I knew I was going to love Pokémon Pokopia the moment I pressed the shoulder button and - instead of whipping out a ...

If someone showed you photos of Onyx Cave without context, you’d probably assume they were concept art from the latest space ...

The Petersen Rock Garden & Museum in Redmond is proof that one person’s obsession can become everyone else’s treasure, and ...

Overview: A Landmark Year for Biodiversity The 12-month period from February 2025 to February 2026 was one of the most consequential in IUCN’s history. Against a backdrop of rapidly accelerating ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates ...

The oceans of the Cretaceous of North America teemed with life. Gigantic fish and enormous marine reptiles hunted the Western Interior Sea. A unique new fossil demonstrates rare evidence of direct ...

Three tiny Purgatorius teeth found in Colorado are helping scientists trace how early primates evolved and spread across North America.