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

This study explains why helpful DNA changes appear often but rarely spread, because environments shift too fast for evolution ...

Astronomers have discovered an unusual exoplanet that has managed to retain its atmosphere despite intense nearby radiation from a giant red star. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University found the ...

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The project collects troves of data from the best climate models around the world – and the newest update to it is now underway.

For ages, Earth has been known as a blue planet, a vision largely shaped by the vast oceans that cover three-quarters of its surface. But what if this wasn't always the case, and our oceans used to be ...

Over the past week we've witnessed the many political discussions that go with the territory of a COP—or, more verbosely, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on ...