The cells had been buried for 101.5 million years, sealed inside sediment beneath one of the emptiest stretches of ocean on ...

Earth’s molten outer core is critical to life on our planet. Churning some 2,900 kilometers beneath the surface, it’s a vast ...

Dr Sarah Alam Malik suggests Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus, and Jupiter's moon Europa, may host conditions suitable for life, challenging traditional views of the 'Goldilocks zone'.

The universe is vast, ancient, and mostly silent. For decades, scientists have pointed their telescopes toward distant stars, ...

India is one of the 17 megadiverse nations of the world, possessing almost 8 percent of the known species of flora and fauna ...

By Vir Singh Our contemporary world is torn by wars fought over territories, borders, resources, economic hegemony, and ...

The world celebrates the International Day for Biological Diversity every year on May 22, amid intensive efforts to protect planet Earth-especially the lives ...

The world celebrates the International Day for Biological Diversity every year on May 22, amid intensive efforts to protect planet Earth-especially the lives of animals and plants, which form a ...

The explosion of a reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 40 years ago in April 1986 was one of the biggest human-made ...

A comprehensive new study shows that Europe’s landscapes have been shaped by grasslands and open woodlands for more than 20 ...

We face not just metabolic rifts, but metabolic chasms, writes Ian Angus in this excerpt from his new book, Metabolic Rifts: ...

In surface waters, their signal is visible: a pink-to-deep-crimson bloom at the chemocline, a purple-black mat at the sediment surface, a slick iridescence at the water's edge that the tourist board ...