First, the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act prohibited union control of private-sector pension funds, instead requiring joint ...

More than a decade after West Union, Iowa, tapped geothermal energy, the town’s heating and cooling network is a “celebrity” ...

British primatologist Jane Goodall entered the African wilderness at 26, without any formal scientific training or university ...

The findings show that the common ancestor of the extant fungi was about 1.4 to 900 million years ago. That is far earlier ...

A tropical storm was brewing over a chain of islands on the edge of the vast Tethys Ocean - the ancient predecessor to the ...

Caroline Lynn Kamerlin receives funding from the NASA Exobiology program. Liam Longo receives funding from the NASA Exobiology program. The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are ...

the amino acid sequence of P-loops aren’t special in their ability to form nests – as would be expected if they alone were the seeds for many modern proteins. Our work strongly suggests that while the ...

A University of Michigan researcher has discovered an early innovation in the way fish eat. A scientist from the University ...

ATP synthase is an enzyme that has been using phosphate to generate life’s energy for millions of years. Nanoclustering/Science Photo Library via Getty Images The questions of how humankind came to be ...

New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of ...

The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia. But to answer these questions, scientists must first understand life ...

Little is known about the early history of lizards, snakes and their kin. New fossil discoveries reveal a complex ...