A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth ...

Across a Swiss meadow and into its forested edges, the drone dragged a jumbo-size cotton swab from a 13-foot tether. Along its path, the moistened swab collected scraps of life: some combination of ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, study shows.

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Cool Science is a free and public art competition held each fall for all K-12 artists. Cool Science is a collaboration between the UMass Lowell, UMass Boston, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, ...

Scientists have created an artificial intelligence tool called SCIGEN that can potentially speed up the hunt for novel ...

Smithsonian researcher Ingrid Romero studies fossil pollen to reconstruct ancient climates and predict future changes ...