The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Researchers recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that Earth’s young atmosphere could make key molecules ...

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

Make sure your angles are in units of radians (not degrees), where 2π radians = 360 degrees. But after that you will get the ...

Earth system models have been overestimating natural nitrogen fixation by about 50%, overstating the strength of Earth’s future carbon sink.

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...

A research team led by Dr. Jong-Woo Kim from the Nano Materials Research Division and Dr. Da-Seul Shin from the Materials Processing Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS ...

The James E. Richmond Science Center in Charles County kicks off the holiday season with a series of full-dome movies and ...

When I was five years old, my family moved into a 1930s semi-detached house with a long strip of garden. At the end of the garden was a miniature orchard of eight apple trees the previous owners had ...

Evolution is neither purposeful nor intentional: it has no ideal, aim, or end-point. For evolutionary change, there are no ...

Current physics is speeding toward a breaking point, as astronomers confirm that the Hubble tension in new data.

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...