Butterflies closer to the equator have been shown to evolve shared wing patterns faster than their relatives at higher latitudes. That gradient reframes tropical diversity as an active process, shaped ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

The cycling of water within Earth's interior regulates plate tectonics, volcanism, ocean volume, and climate stability, ...

The classic thought experiment about a horse-sized duck and a hundred duck-sized horses is more than a joke. It captures a ...

The impact of the asteroid in present-day Yucatan wiped out almost all life on Earth. It recovered faster than previously ...

Will two rare supernovas finally tell us how fast the universe is expanding? Perhaps, but we'll have to wait for it for them ...

Researchers traced termite DNA back to cockroach ancestors and found genetic loss played a key role in building social ...

Studies looking at how sponges have evolved on a molecular level have suggested that spicules should be present over 700 ...

For over a century, it was assumed that science had a handle on the big categories of life on Earth: plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms were t.

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...

Researchers developed ShapKAN, a deep learning model integrated into the AI4Min-PE platform ( enabling instant prediction and ...