Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...
Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...
From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we ...
Birding is having something of a pop-culture moment. Uzo Aduba’s “world’s greatest detective,” from this summer’s Netflix hit The Residence, was a birder, as is Mark Ruffalo’s FBI agent character in ...
Researchers have unearthed South America’s first amber deposits containing ancient insects in an Ecuadorian quarry, offering ...
"Newport & the Great Folk Dream" is a rapturous documentary — elegant and transporting, full of scratchy lyrical ...
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A bold vision to solve one of humanity's most pressing challenges—the need for clean, sustainable energy—takes center stage in the new documentary "Bright ...
Some 2.3 billion years ago, the Earth would have been unrecognizable to us. At that time, ancient microorganisms were the dominant life form; there were no animals, no plant life, and certainly no ...
New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event. Some 2.3 billion years ago, the Earth would have been ...
‘Bodyguard of Lies,’ based on reporting from The Washington Post, asks top military officials about mistruths used to sell the decades-long conflict to the American public. “Bodyguard of Lies,” a ...