Oxygen is everywhere on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the case. Scientists think oxygen only became a lasting part ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

In the last 26 years, some of the best X-Men characters have been introduced and become fan-favorites with Marvel readers.

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor.

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

An international study investigating the genomic diversity of the Sudanese population reveals that the Copts originating in ...

NASA uses a vision-language model (VLM) called Claude for the first time to plan two separate drives on Mars for the ...

The Puerto Rican superstar’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, which won Album of the Year at this year's Grammys, spotlights Puerto Rico’s history and struggles, even as Donald Trump dismissed the artist's Super ...

In fact, more people have walked on the Moon than have visited the deepest parts of our oceans. In this world of constant ...

New Scientist is 60 years old this week, and what better way to celebrate a landmark birthday than to wax lyrical about another time. But we’re not going to hark back to the past. We’re going to gaze ...