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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The search for life beyond Earth has traditionally focused on exoplanets orbiting sun-like stars, which is a G-type star.

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 ...

It was a head-spinning discovery. In 2018, researchers in Japan claimed to find concrete evidence of an elusive particle, a ...

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

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

A team of astronomers led by Elisabeth Matthews at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a discovery that highlights the limits of most current models of exoplanet atmospheres: ...

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

Tularemia is a rare but highly infectious disease caused by Francisella tularensis, a bacterium that can evade immune ...

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