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Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

Published in the Journal of Astrobiology, the paper does not argue that there was a technologically advanced species long ...

Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

A Yale study reveals that elevated marine iodine concentrations disrupted the stabilization of Earth’s ozone layer, delaying ...

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In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...

A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...