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Which of Earth's features were essential for the origin and sustenance of life? And how do scientists identify those features on other worlds? A team...

Using data from field experiments and modeling of ground faults, researchers at Tufts University have discovered that the practice of subsurface fluid injection used...

For the first time, a European research team involving the University of Göttingen has discovered the remains of a nova in a galactic globular...

Two cosmochemists at Arizona State University have made the first-ever measurements of water contained in samples from the surface of an asteroid. The samples...

A University of Sussex mathematician, Dr. Konstantin Blyuss, working with biologists at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, has developed a chemical-free way...

Most of the knowledge that indigenous communities in South America have about plants is not written down. Now, ecologists at the University of Zurich...

The biblical King Balak may have been a historical figure, according to a new reading of the Mesha Stele, an inscribed stone dating from...

If someone is passionate about what they do, we see it as more legitimate to exploit them, according to new research from Duke University's...

A new, groundbreaking study by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) found a way to transform skin cells into the three major stem cell...

In an unusual new study, scientists say they have detected the fingerprint of human-driven global warming on patterns of drought and moisture across the...

So far, Denisovans were only known from a small collection of fossil fragments from Denisova Cave in Siberia. A research team now describes a...