The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

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New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...

From living paint to injecting rocks, scientists have bizarre carbon capture ideas that could help us tackle the climate ...

In the midst of the COVID pandemic, scientists embarked on an ambitious research expedition to the North Atlantic to ...

Study finds Africa’s forests, responsible for one-fifth of global carbon removal, are now generating carbon instead.

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For decades, we’ve studied the ocean’s most fearsome predator through a dangerously incomplete lens, and Australian ...

Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s ...

The big blue is the world's greatest wilderness – it's a vast marine desert where there is little to eat and nowhere to hide.