Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

What will the world look like in 2100? This question is central to a new free online game called FutureGuessr. Launched in ...

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A ...

A new study has revealed how phosphorus, a nutrient essential for photosynthesis, surged into ancient oceans and started ...

NATIONWIDE — NASA announced on Wednesday that its Perseverance Mars rover may have found signs of ancient microbial life on the red planet. During a teleconference on Wednesday morning, acting NASA ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...

A new documentary puts viewers in the shoes of Neanderthals and early humans, giving an intimate glimpse into humans’ ...

Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...

If you don’t like Halloween, we can’t be friends. I don’t care whether you celebrate with a drunken costume party, pumpkin carving, door-to-door candy begging, or a more personal observance like ...

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

"We have found a habitable environment," said John Grotzinger, project scientist for the Curiosity mission. "The water that was here was so benign and supportive of life that if a ...