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For most of Earth’s first three billion years, oceans brimmed with single‑celled microbes that shuffled along at a slow biochemical pace — life, but not complex.

It lacked ample phosphorus, the nutrient every cell needs for DNA assembly,…

A newly identified prehistoric species, Terastiodontosaurus marcelosanchezi, has stunned paleontologists by becoming the largest known worm lizard ever discovered. According to the study published in Zoological Journal, this ancient reptile,…

Several billion years ago, at the dawn of the solar system, a wet, salty world circled our sun. Then it collided, catastrophically, with another object and shattered into pieces.

One of these lumps became the asteroid Bennu whose minerals,…

Researchers in eastern Brazil have uncovered an extraordinary site where 9,000-year-old petroglyphs are etched just inches away from what are believed to be dinosaur footprints dating back 66 million years. The discovery, located at Serrote do…

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have introduced an unexpected innovation that could transform both energy storage and industrial pollution treatment. Published in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, their new…

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The Lyrid meteor shower, one of the oldest known displays of shooting stars, is already underway and will peak overnight on Monday-Tuesday, April 21-22, with about 18 meteors per hour expected—including some super-bright fireballs.

Imagine tiny robotic bees buzzing around fields of wildflowers, helping real bees carry out their crucial pollinating duties decades in the future. It’s a vision that Harvard’s Microrobotics…

The Lyrid meteor shower is active between April 16 and April 25, and peaks on April 22.

During the peak, Earth passes through the densest part of the debris stream left behind by Comet Thatcher, which delivers the highest chance of a great

MOSCOW — A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and one American from the International Space Station landed Sunday in Kazakhstan, ending their seven-month research assignment.

According to Russian space agency Roscosmos, the capsule carrying…