"The Grand Canyon is an epic Rosetta Stone for geology," Denver Museum of Nature and Science geologist James Hagadorn said.

Primitive droplets stabilized by rain? This could be the key to the emergence of life. New studies are exploring this surprising hypothesis. The formation of modern cells, true ...

According to Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany, there may be another facet to this mystery that hasn't yet been considered: Viking may indeed have ...

Scientists have long been fascinated by how ancient fish like Tiktaalik evolved the structures needed to walk on land.

How did life arise from lifeless molecules? Scientists recreated the mitochondria and biochemical nutrient transport ...

The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

Professor Tim Coulson, a professor of Zoology and former head of Biology at Oxford University, has shared his thoughts on ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

Local leaders and rural revitalization experts say Texas’ smallest towns can survive — despite a shift to urban and suburban ...