New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...

The new study tallies how microbialites take carbon and turn it into fresh layers of calcium carbonate. These structures then ...

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

Sophisticated new chemical analysis of gases trapped in rocks for millions of years has cast new light on the origin of the ...

An international team of researchers has quantified for the first time the rate of carbon capture of microbialites, living ...

Scientific research from Bermuda has helped to inform a revelatory study of the island’s unusual geological foundations that ...

Ancient living rocks along South Africa’s coast are thriving in harsh conditions, rapidly growing while storing surprising ...

Volcanic islands, like the famed Hawaiian chain, are typically buoyed by hot, active magma plumes pushing up the Earth’s ...

A new study of deodar trees in Himachal’s Kinnaur reveals a shift from wetter springs during the Little Ice Age to increasing ...

By way of a study conducted by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), an increased need for obstetric ...

A new study has shown that Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication. The University of Arkansas found that urban raccoons have smaller snouts, a sign of domestication syndrome.