If we’re hallucinating, we may not be hallucinating exactly the same thing.

The near-complete database reflects a spirit of trust and collaboration among the country’s scientific community — but will ...

The dream of traversing the depths of space and planting the seed of human civilization on another planet has existed for generations.

Even the balmy tropics may have once been crushed by colossal masses of ice.

Volcanic rock, dating back billions of years, has been detected in the first samples collected from the mysterious "dark side ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk ...

From delicate dandelions to mighty oak trees, millions of plants use seeds to reproduce. But where did the first seeds come ...

“If you extract all the DNA, you have DNA from living organisms and also DNA that can represent organisms that just died or ...

Co-author Jonathan Payne, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Stanford University ... Phanerozoic co-evolution of O 2-CO 2 and ocean habitability, National Science Review (2024). DOI: 10.1093 ...

Together with my daughters, aged five and 11, I check out five new attractions that launched recently. We encounter cats, ...

This shower may result in around 15 visible meteors per hour under ideal viewing conditions — something not entirely possible ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent ...