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Growing up, I vividly remember reading through nature-related magazines, fascinated by the vast numbers of creatures ...

The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) population has plummeted by 80% to 95% since the 1990s, depending on the region and ...

Sprawled along the Pacific coastline near San Francisco, Golden Gate National Recreation Area is full of wildflowers, beaches ...

Could the chemical fingerprints of life really persist for billions of years, hidden in rocks reshaped by eons of heat and ...

Human space exploration helps to address important questions about unknown aspects of the universe and the ability to sustain life on other planets. At the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2, the ...

A major breakthrough challenges everything we knew about Earth’s ancient life. New evidence pushes the timeline back by over ...

Phage therapy is reshaping our understanding of how targeted viruses can reset the gut microbiome, offering a precise, ...

Scientists have uncovered new chemical clues that life existed on Earth more than 3.3 billion years ago—much earlier than many previous estimates. Even more surprising, they found evidence that oxygen ...

Researchers have discovered chemical traces of life in rocks older than 3.3 billion years, offering a rare look at Earth’s earliest biology. By combining advanced chemical methods with artificial ...

Teasing out biochemical information from ancient organic-rich sediments, notably the timing of the emergence of photosynthesis relative to the inferred oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere, remains a ...

Deep in some of Earth’s oldest rocks, traces of ancient life still linger, even when every cell has crumbled. You would not ...