From towering coastal redwoods to dinosaur-era Wollemi pines and firs that make the perfect Christmas trees, even our most ...

Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth's oxygen and are the ...

You may have heard that the sun will swallow the Earth in 5 billion years, but the planet will be uninhabitable a few billion ...

Research finds diatoms evolved slowly for 100 million years and then experienced an evolutionary burst of speciation 170 million years ago.

The University College London research builds on years of efforts to trace the origins of Earth’s early genetic materials.

For over a century, scientists have wrestled with one of biology’s most fundamental mysteries: how the first animals evolved.

Wan-I Yang, Taiwanese professor at the Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-sen University, participates in the ...

Trunyan Village in Bali offers a unique cultural experience. It is home to the Bali Aga people. They maintain ancient ...

Some plants display animal-like behaviors. Sundew hunts insects. Skunk cabbage generates heat. Witchweed steals nutrients.

Analysis of early human bone fossils reveals adaptations for climbing trees and manipulating stones millions of years ago.

How growing up in the "cone of uncertainty" changed my life - even when I thought I had left it behind. Until Hurricane ...

The 14 people who survived being simultaneously struck by lightning in eastern France on September 2, 2017, remain a ...