A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

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Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...

The humble horseshoe crab, an ancient species crawling seafloors since before the dawn of the dinosaurs, was durable enough to survive the mass extinctions of eons past. But now, hundreds of millions ...

Tadeo Ramirez-Parada studied the timing of plant flowering for his PhD — but he didn’t touch a single petal. Instead, he ...

Nature always has the potential to outdo human imagination. From across oceans, forests, deserts, and isolated islands, there ...

Big hitter Peter F. Hamilton has a new sci-fi novel out this month – and Booker winner George Saunders ventures into ...

For generations, the question of whether life exists beyond Earth has captivated humanity. On Mars, faint traces in ancient ...

Jupiter's Hill radius on 16 March 2026. Harvard's Avi Loeb suggests the object could release a 96th moon, marking a potential ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

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