Earth and Mars are mysteriously low in elements like copper and zinc, which are crucial for planetary chemistry and potentially life. A new study overturns old theories by showing that these elements ...

Every breath we take, every meal we eat, and every environment we encounter leaves a molecular fingerprint in our bodies—a hidden record of our lifelong exposures. In this week's edition of the ...

Andrew Lakoff studies how experts—in areas from public health to the environment to security—generate knowledge about and ...

Discover the fascinating world of nitrogen, from knuckle-cracking to agriculture, and the urgent need to address nitrous ...

Scientists say tailored clothes, ochre-based sunscreen, and cave shelter helped Homo sapiens survive a magnetic shift 41,000 ...

Scientists say the Trump administration’s embrace of de-extinction won’t help endangered species like the Great Lakes gray ...

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge ...

A new study from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science Tokyo has revealed an unexpected role for calcium in the formation of life’s earliest molecular structures. The ...

With over 5,000 volunteers participating across more than 100 cleanup sites, this event is considered the largest Earth Week cleanup ... harming aquatic life and affecting water quality.

A 39-year-old Spaniard — Santiago Ramón y Cajal — changed the history of science with a study hidden in the little ... a team led by doctor Sergiu Pasca has used millions of human cells to create a ...

The planet is described as being "Earth ... science instruments ever dispatched to another celestial body. "Landing, collecting and returning results that could change our understanding of life ...

A woman who murdered her husband in a “ferocious attack” and hid his dismembered body in their garden has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years. Maureen Rickards, 50 ...