Dr. Swee Lay Thein and Dr. Stuart Orkin won the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their work toward a ...

It sounds like something out of a sci-fi blockbuster, but firefighters in California are firing up a fascinating new way to ...

Weizmann Institute researchers find that yeast born to preferred partners are fitter than those from one-night stands, ...

Earth formed within such a precise “Goldilocks zone” for oxygen that a 5% change would have prevented life from emerging.

Tiny structures found in ancient Canadian rocks could be the oldest traces of animal life ever identified, dating back nearly ...

Every year, power plants and factories release billions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) into the atmosphere. Methods exist to ...

In our previous articles, we explored how the loss of deep-water oxygen – hypoxia - creates a dead zone at the bottom of our ...

Korean researchers have developed a "universal design principle" to accelerate the commercialization of all-solid-state ...

Reverse-engineering the billion-year-old enzyme nitrogenase clued researchers into how life originally formed on Earth — and ...

A Wyoming fishing hole has shifted to a rusty red hue, prompting questions from scientists about water chemistry, microbes, ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have successfully synthesized bacteriochlorophyll a, which is a ...