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Imagine looking back through Earth's incredibly vast history. We picture dinosaurs roaming lush landscapes, ancient oceans teeming with primitive life, and eventually, the rise of mammals leading to ...

A stalagmite from a cave in Kurdistan has provided unprecedented detail on local climatic conditions from 18,000 to 7,500 ...

University of Alberta geochemists have discovered a missing piece to one of the great mysteries of science—the origin of life ...

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

Syria was home to one of the first civilizations on earth. Today, the country is picking up the pieces from the ruins of humanity's oldest sin. Half a century of dictatorship between Bashar al-Assad ...

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Since humanity's first steps on the moon, the aspiration to extend human civilization beyond Earth has been a central ...

Ever since humanity began to actively explore space, one of the key objectives of any and all missions has been the detection of life, or at least the detection of the key ingredients needed to ...

Billionaire-pilot Jared Isaacman, who headed a team of independent astronauts that just touched down from an incredible Earth-orbiting demo flight, says he aims to help safeguard human civilization by ...