Kristil Krug’s family believes that if communications companies had responded faster, officials could have identified her husband as the culprit and saved her.

Trees across the Amazon rainforest are growing larger in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to a major new study. The research, published in the Nature Plants ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected witness to Earth’s distant past: tiny iron oxide stones called ooids. These mineral snowballs lock away traces of ancient carbon, revealing that oceans between ...

Sometimes a problem just won't go away. This video documents our frustrating journey to solve a persistent issue, showing you the challenges and the unexpected solutions we tried.

A new study used mathematical formulas and demonstrated that it’s highly unlikely life began on Earth. Instead, the researcher points to panspermia, a theory that life or the ingredients for life came ...

Tree trunks in the Amazon are getting 3.3% thicker every decade as the plants absorb extra carbon dioxide, suggesting they ...

A MAJOR mystery surrounding tiny ancient human cousins nicknamed “Hobbits” has finally been solved. Scientists say they’ve cracked a main puzzle about how the 3-foot-tall species ...

A crushed million-year-old skull found in China that has been digitally reconstructed reopens a debate in human evolution.

The carbon cycle is a natural process that plays a crucial role in Earth's climate system. However, human activities have ...

UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was missing in previous descriptions of the way Earth recycles its ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the first large-brained humans. That's because it dated back about a million ...

The biological study of species offers no equivalent to such transmutation. An individual which belongs to a given species ...