The organization of life on Earth follows a simple, hidden rule known as “core-to-transition organization.” Hypothesized by ...

When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels have increased more or less in parallel over the past 540 million years, suggesting ...

This photo series capturing efforts to save the Chinook salmon of the Klamath river in the western US won the New Scientist ...

The international journal Nature selected and announced the best science images of 2024 capturing ... also selected the beauty of life found all over the Earth as one of the best scientific ...

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field and the amount of oxygen in its atmosphere seem to be correlated—and scientists want ...

While life on Earth does usually find a way ... CREDIT: Robert Michael/AFP via Getty Images. Earth’s marine species, especially those at the tropics, were in trouble again about 419 million ...

Two of the most intriguing questions in science are: How did life on Earth begin? and Is there life elsewhere in the universe? Given the enormous interest in these questions, you might expect that ...

Perhaps the falling of water, the most crucial element that sustains us, also played a greater role in the origin of life on Earth than we previously recognized.” Mindy Weisberger is a science ...