There's evidence trapped in ancient ice that during warm periods millions of years ago, the ice-free Southern Ocean responded ...

Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco when she saw something ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does ...

Because animals have a limited capability of understanding human language, they cannot “read” the way humans do.

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For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...

Nov. 25 (UPI) --President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to harness artificial intelligence, through what is being called the Genesis Mission, and merge scientific research to ...

The Coast Guard said Thursday a Washington Post report that claimed it will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols is “categorically false.” “The claims that the U.S. Coast Guard will ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday ruled out allowing U.S. strikes against cartels on Mexican soil, a day after President Trump said he was willing to do whatever it takes to stop drugs ...

Identifying signs of life in ancient rocks is hard. It is not enough to find organic molecules—rocks of all sorts contain them but “organic” just means the molecules contain chains of carbon atoms.

WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints of living organisms in ancient rocks, an ...