Bright yellow, black, red and blue, Alexanor butterflies once fluttered abundantly on southwestern Albania's flowery slopes. Now, like many related species, scientists say they are disappearing due to human impacts, including climate change.
Increasingly absent from the...
When I tell people that I study fossils, many assume I am talking about dinosaurs or some equally impressive extinct creatures. But there's far more to be found in the global fossil record, like plants, fish...
Mars polar ice caps were one of the first Earth-like characteristics identified on Mars. Since the development of film in the 19th Century, researchers...
People might assume the search for life on Mars ended when NASA's first rovers sent back images of the planet's barren, inhospitable surface. However,...
A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA's Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars,...
Scientists from the Universities of Sydney and Sorbonne University have used the geological record of the deep sea to discover a connection between the...
Humans have been digging underground for millennia—on the Earth. It's where we extract some of our most valuable resources that have moved society forward....
An international team of radiation specialists, biologists and infectious disease experts has found four types of bacteria that are capable of surviving exposure to...
