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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 ...

An undersea volcano off Oregon's coast will probably erupt in 2025, scientists say.

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

Find out how astronauts on the International Space Station celebrate the New Year in space, with 16 sunrises and sunsets every 24 hours!

Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have uncovered a huge expanse of quarry floor filled with hundreds ...

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