It is only by going out and documenting these new species can we have a better and more comprehensive understanding of how ...

Is reincarnation real? Is communication from the “beyond” possible? A small set of academics are trying to find out, case by ...

Prior to this survey, researchers believed that the lake had been frozen for millions of years and that it contained no life.

At first it was assumed that mirror bacteria would be effectively harmless, because they can’t digest most of the ...

The filling of Earth’s skies with oxygen, roughly 2.1 to 2.4 billion years ago, has long been one of history’s biggest ...

New research sheds light on icy ocean worlds like Jupiter's Europa, focusing on a novel thermodynamic concept called the "cenotectic." This concept helps determine the conditions under which liquid ...

One Earth satellite can see plankton that photosynthesize. The other measures water surface height. Together, their data ...

The resulting products were ionized; their mass-to-charge ratios were determined based on the time it took for them to reach ...

A groundbreaking study by the Roslin Institute explores how whole genome duplication shaped the complexity and evolution of ...

When she arrived in Ithaca in 1924 to pursue a master’s degree at Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, Pearl S. Buck was ...

Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.

Fungus-farming ants, fossilized footprints and a prehistoric critter named after a Muppet are just a few of the year’s most ...