“Aside from the expense and the energy intensity, [Carbon Capture and Storage] provides an excuse to carry on burning fossil ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

The path toward intelligent life, they argue, may be more of a predictable process, unfolding as global conditions allow in a ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

The elements of the outdoors that allow plants to thrive – light, warmth, and water – can all be brought indoors with a little creativity and the right resources.

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

We suggest that as the Earth changed physically and chemically over time, its surface conditions allowed for a greater diversity of habitats for life. And these changes operate on geologic timescales ...

Next the researchers are working on soybeans and cowpeas; the latter is “a hugely important food-security crop in African ...

Cyanobacteria began contributing oxygen to Earth's mostly noxious atmosphere more than 2 billion years ago. The photosystem ...

Quantum mechanics plays a role in the process of photosynthesis. Engineers have long sought efficient ways to convert solar ...

In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...