In the middle of the Arizona desert stands a surreal, glass-enclosed world. A sealed replica of Earth's ecosystems that was once dismissed as an eccentric dream. Today, it is one of the most ambitious ...

Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

Isolated in the vast Firth of Clyde, Arran is situated just south of the Hebrides and is Scotland's seventh biggest island.

Mesopotamia some 6000 years ago, one of the cradle of civilizations and the birthplace of the first writing system. In the ...

As well as being an interesting hypothesis to ponder, seeking to answer the question could also help us search for signs of advanced civilizations on exoplanets. As the paper points out, humans ...

Lamorna Ash’s “Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever” reports on the young faithful in Britain, while Ross Douthat’s “Believe” has ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

Project Kuiper will deliver high-speed, low-latency internet to virtually any location on the planet, and we expect to begin delivering service to customers later this year. Our first-generation ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

The map that NASA launched in 1972 could lead extraterrestrials to Earth. A new map, nearly 50 years later, provides even better directions. A sparkling mass containing at least half a million ...