Quantum effects are no longer confined to ultra-cold chips and vacuum chambers. For the first time, researchers are ...

"The Romance of Reality" explains how life and consciousness can proliferate despite the seeming contradiction between ...

Extinction is rarely a moment. It is a process that unfolds offstage, marked by missed sightings, thinning records, and the ...

In the South China Sea, near the Paracel Islands, the aqua-colored waters of an expansive shallow reef platform suddenly ...

Across physics, biology and philosophy, a once-fringe idea is gaining new intellectual weight: the possibility that the ...

Europa has a vast, saltwater ocean beneath its icy shell, with more than twice the amount of water in all of Earth’s oceans ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Along the coast of South Africa, strange rocky formations quietly grow in places where life seems unlikely to survive. These ...

The new study tallies how microbialites take carbon and turn it into fresh layers of calcium carbonate. These structures then use photosynthesis (the same way that plants use the sun to make food) and ...