New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

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New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially calls ...

Research suggests that early macropodoids likely adopted a bounding gait before transitioning to bipedal hopping. Small ...

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Wednesday March 26 – New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of the earth’s formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary ...

Few topics have been as contentious among both scientists and laypeople as the age of the Earth. Many scientists are people of faith, but from the moment the ancients found seashell fossils high ...

On a quiet Friday, a big earthquake hit Myanmar, killing more than 1,600 people and causing a lot of damage. Buildings fell, ...