Life on Earth may exist thanks to an incredible stroke of luck — a chemical sweet spot that most planets miss during their ...

Jeff Feinman's love letter to animals views wellness through their perspective and combines scientific rigor with spiritual ...

This isn’t some flashy tourist trap with neon signs and overpriced gift shops – it’s the real deal, a place where centuries-old brick buildings house independent businesses, where intellectual ...

Nature and art — two realms in which we feel the benefit of slow and deep immersion. Be it in an art museum or on a mountain ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

T o make good decisions on any question the public needs to be well-informed, something not so easily accomplished in America’s schools. That is a key point made by Michael Kent, a recently retired ...

European coastal areas are under increasing pressure. Researchers are investigating ways to reverse this trend and help ...

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really ...

It didn’t prepare me academically, but it did make me resourceful. When you grow up having to make things work with nothing, you develop a kind of survival intelligence," one former student said.

Why do some people live to 100 while their sibling dies decades earlier? Is it luck, lifestyle, or something written into their DNA? Relative to many other species, humans are particularly long-lived, ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

A doctoral student re-created a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.