Ancient hot springs in Japan reveal how microbes adapted to Earth’s first oxygen, offering insights into early life.

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For people who don’t already exercise, short bursts of deliberate activity significantly improved cardiorespiratory fitness.

All living things – plants, animals, and humans – are connected through a system that sustains life. Caring for these living ...

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Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts ...

A study supported by NASA has shown that Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere, which makes our planet hospitable for humans and animals, will not last forever. In fact, scientists now believe that Earth's ...

Most of the problem afflicting the world can be traced to alienation from Nature. The estrangement may have been borne ...

Astronomers studying an oddball brown dwarf called “The Accident” have finally spotted silane, a long-predicted silicon molecule missing from Jupiter and Saturn’s skies. Its ancient, oxygen-poor ...

For Nora Langdon, the moment of truth came on the stairs. She was 64 years old. Up to that point, Langdon had lived a largely satisfying life. She’d raised two kids, had good friends, and was in her ...

Physical activity, thinking skills, and emotional regulation are evolutionarily intertwined, yet an "evolutionary bug" makes us lazy. Explore the links and learn how to fight back.

Big birds live longer than small birds. Albatrosses, with their 10-foot wingspans and beaks the size of an Idaho potato, may ...