When researchers lowered whale bones into the deep ocean, they expected zombie worms to quickly move in. Instead, after 10 ...

You are taught early in science that oxygen on Earth comes from sunlight. Plants, algae, and cyanobacteria use light to split ...

Nearly 4,000 m beneath the Pacific, in water so dark that sunlight has never penetrated, scientists have stumbled on a new way that oxygen can appear where it should not exist. The finding, quickly ...

Inside your cells, mitochondria keep you alive by turning food into usable energy. Researchers from the University of ...

Science takes a closer look at the famous miracle where Jesus transformed water into wine to see how chemistry can explain ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

The basics of photosynthesis are something that every student learns in school: carbon dioxide, water and light in; oxygen ...

The basics of photosynthesis are something that every student learns in school: carbon dioxide, water and light in; oxygen and sugar for growth out ...

The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars. Formed from fine, ...

New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...

China launches new TJS satellite, commercial Kinetica-1 lofts 9 spacecraft China continued a surge in launch activity with a pair of missions Tuesday, adding to an opaque satellite series and ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...