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During the Archean Eon—roughly 4 billion years ago—the Earth was a lifeless planet. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, and there were few, if any, organisms to be found anywhere on the globe. Then ...

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Something on Pluto and one of Saturn’s moons, Titan, absorbs light in a way unexplained by anything in spectroscopic ...

Scientists have cracked how bacteria build cancer-fighting compounds, a breakthrough that could speed up new treatments. The ...

Nature is beautiful, powerful and essential. But nature is not always gentle. The same biological world that gives rise to ...

In every cell of your body, there are mysterious speckles. You need a microscope to see them, but if you peer closely, you will see lots of tiny dots: some sitting still, some moving around as if ...