At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

A sharp plunge in ocean calcium levels may be the missing link in Earth’s long transition from a hot, dinosaur-era greenhouse ...

Denmark's Octarine Bio has raised €5M ($5.8M) in new funding to launch precision-fermented pigments for food, textiles, and ...

I think the outreach part is what makes this so special,” Dava Butler said. “It’s not just for scientists or students. Anyone can walk up and see what we’re doing, ask questions and realize that ...

If you’ve ever experimented with a microprocessor at the bare metal level, you’ll know that when it starts up, it will look at its program memory for something to do. On an old 8-bit machine, that ...

Researchers identified potential evidence of calcium oxalate (CaOx) crystals in plant fossils ranging from 400 million to 20 million years ago Fossil structures resembling CaOx druses were found ...

A newly discovered horseshoe crab fossil from North America has provided rare evidence of an ancient microbial attack, revealing one of the earliest recorded cases of disease in the animal kingdom.

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters - capable of sinking their claws even into solid ...