For northern-hemisphere families in isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic, a recently discovered comet may provide some needed diversion.¹...

“Were it not for the asteroid, humans would never have evolved,” said Ian Miller, curator of paleobotany and director of earth and space sciences...

Geologists have used high-resolution images obtained by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to infer the existence of past rivers on the Martian surface. Geologist...

The field of epigenetics is one of the most exciting and rapidly expanding scientific research areas in the study of the genome and how it responds...

Have you ever pulled apart a large mass of taffy and watched it break into two approximately equal masses? This is an illustration of what happens in...

One of the biggest hurdles for evolution to overcome is the transition of creatures from living in water to living on land. In the previous article,...