Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

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Amber from the Kachin region of Myanmar has preserved a wealth of fossils, offering insights into the diversity of the ...

New research shows that variation in mating behaviors, parental care and differences in ornamentation of the sexes in bird ...

When you throw a ball in the air, the equations of classical physics will tell you exactly what path the ball will take as it ...

The meat and dairy industry accounts for 57% of total global food production emissions and at least 16.5% of all global ...

Chemical reactions drive life. They ensure that cells obtain energy, proteins perform their functions, and DNA changes under ...

A new study published in Earth's Future introduces the eLTER Framework of Standard Observations (eLTER SO)—a structured, ...

Genome duplication probably gave biodiversity a decisive evolutionary boost. A Chinese-German research team led by Axel Meyer ...

Reaching the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, would take hundreds of thousands of years using current rocket propulsion ...

Simulating how atoms and molecules move over time is a central challenge in computational chemistry and materials science.

Fifteen years after Western astronomers first discovered "buckyballs" in space (soccer ball-shaped molecules that resemble a ...