"The Story of Everything" documentary argues scientific discoveries about the universe, DNA and fine-tuning point to the ...

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Big names from the worlds of film, technology, music and sports gathered on Saturday in Santa Monica, California, for the Breakthrough Prizes, popularly known as the "Oscars of Science." ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has found a diverse mix of organic molecules on Mars, including chemicals considered building blocks ...

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover detected 21 ancient organic molecules on Mars, including compounds containing carbon, sulfur and ...

It was 1972 and Apollo astronauts Harrison “Jack” Schmitt and Eugene Cernan had just stepped onto the moon’s surface to begin collecting rock and soil samples. Related Articles US health officials nix ...

What started as routine fossil cleaning turned into a major scientific surprise when researchers uncovered a tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old specimen where no claw should exist. That detail ...

Scientists thawed the ancient sample from the Alazeya River in northeastern Siberia, and to their surprise, the creature woke ...