Astrobotanica features a strong combination of world exploration, free-form potion brewing, environmental puzzles and base ...

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh ...

That’s according to a recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which detected ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great ...

A new model uncovers how Earth’s liquid core has sustained its magnetic field since the planet’s beginnings, offering new insights into its future. Earth benefits from the presence of a magnetic field ...

New research reveals fungi, not plants, were Earth's first land colonizers, emerging hundreds of millions of years earlier.

Between 800,000 and 430,000 years ago, Earth went through a series of fairly gentle warm-ups that scientists are now calling ...

Ancient DNA from an Egyptian genome has been sequenced for the first time, revealing genetic links to the Fertile Crescent.

The findings show that the common ancestor of the extant fungi was about 1.4 to 900 million years ago. That is far earlier ...

Scientists have successfully recreated a poignant sound of a past event, where Earth’s magnetic field dramatically flipped ...

Two tiny ingredients in ancient seawater – nickel and urea – may explain why oxygen arrived late on Earth. A team in Japan tested this idea and found a chemical choke point that held back early oxygen ...