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Mono Lake, tucked in the Eastern Sierra, is no ordinary lake. Its eerie tufa towers and teeming swarms of brine shrimp and ...

Around 591 million years ago, Earth’s nearly vanished magnetic field triggered a surge in oxygen that paved the way for ...

How life arose remains a looming question in science that researchers are seeking to answer by studying the features shared among life today. Everything alive is made up of cells, and what made the ...

For most of human history, the overall population is believed to have remained quite low. But since the early 1800s, the ...

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Understanding the origin of the building block of all animal and plant life may lead to more insights about life on Earth and ...

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CALIFORNIA — The four-person civilian Fram2 mission returned home in a splash down off the coast of California on Friday after being the first humans to orbit Earth's polar regions. Riding in ...

Scientists were finally given access to a remarkable Archaeopteryx fossil that’s allowed them to better understand exactly ...

After Alien: Romulus's success, we now look forward to the first-ever Alien TV show, coming to Hulu in summer 2025. Here's everything we know about 'Alien: Earth' so far. The long-awaited Alien TV ...