It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...

Long before forests of tall trees covered the planet, Earth was ruled by something stranger: towering, trunk like organisms ...

A towering 26-foot-tall fossil, first discovered in Scotland, has been confirmed by scientists as a completely new form of ...

Called 'prototaxites', this lifeform lived on Earth around 410 million years ago, before becoming extinct 360 million years ...

In Regents of the University of California v. Broad Institute, Inc., the Federal Circuit addressed the issue of conception and reduction to ...

Cleanup pruning should be done before sap begins to rise in trees and cold swings back in force. Jagged ends left by broken ...

Scientists first read the human genome, a three-billion-letter biological book, in April 2003. Since then, researchers have steadily advanced the ability to write DNA, moving far beyond single-gene ...

SHOCKINGLY well-preserved mummified cheetahs have been uncovered in caves in Saudi Arabia. They were found alongside the ...

LEGENDARY “natural mummy” Ötzi the Iceman was infected with a cancer-causing virus. The ancient human, who live around 5,300 ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown giant virus that may offer new insight into how complex life first evolved.

The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses.