Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations can give us clues to the ...

In the dim waters off the Japanese coast, scientists have stumbled upon something that shouldn’t exist. Or at least not by the rules we thought biology followed. It’s a single-celled organism with ...

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

READING, Pa. — It's been 10 years since Reading put up what came to be known as the "Charlie Brown Christmas tree." This year, the anniversary is being honored in a special way. "There was a lot of ...

Paying for gifts, decorations and gingerbread houses can become quite expensive, so the U.S. Department of the Interior is hoping to ease some financial burden by making Christmas trees more ...

The basics of photosynthesis are something that every student learns in school: carbon dioxide, water and light in; oxygen ...

A stunning fossil find in Türkiye could upend everything we thought we knew about where humans come from. Buried for nearly ...

How a forest soundscape installation aims to help people make sense of forests and climate through listening, not screens.

With so many varieties sold as Christmas trees, knowing what differentiates a Douglas fir from a Norway spruce is key to shopping for a real tree you’ll love. You’re likely to see more than one ...

Christmas is nearly here and you’re thinking about presents, house decorations and putting up a tree. What’s your tree plan this year? Lugging home a Christmas tree and decorating it in the living ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...