The NASA satellite image shows rust-red rock formations in Wyoming—evidence of 220-million-year-old 'megamonsoons'.

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the ...

Primordial black holes are ancient mysteries ... or even deep beneath Earth’s surface. Researchers Dejan Stojkovic, PhD, at the University at Buffalo, and De-Chang Dai, PhD, of National Dong ...

The island hopping is incredible, but Greece's ancient ruins, ski resorts, wineries, thermal pools, and pristine beaches ...

Researchers decades ago proposed that lightning caused chemical reactions in ancient Earth’s oceans and spontaneously produced the organic molecules. Now, new research published March 14 in the ...

Scientists are studying whether Earth’s oldest lifeforms, such as extremophiles and ancient microbes, could survive on other planets. These organisms have thrived in harsh conditions for ...

Earth is around 4.5 billion years old, and the oldest direct fossil evidence of ancient life — stromatolites, or microscopic organisms preserved in layers known as microbial mats — is about 3.5 ...

The research team sought to understand why these ancient organisms evolved to use both pigment types, an adaptation that may have shaped the color and chemistry of Earth’s early oceans. Using advanced ...

reaching heights of up to 26 feet and growing trunks up to 3 feet wide. When the first Prototaxites fossil was unearthed in 1843, it was mistaken for an ancient rotting conifer. But trees didn’t ...

Using drones, Gora and colleagues created 3D models of canopy height, which showed that Dipteryx trees tend to be about four meters taller than their nearest neighbors, likely because lightning ...

In July 2024, Emerald Fennell announced that she is making a new movie adaptation of Wuthering Heights. The actress and filmmaker behind Saltburn and Promising Young Woman shared the news on X, with a ...

The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It was a long stretch of time that spanned from ...