Well-preserved ancient plants and other finds at the Clarkia fossil beds hint at what kind of evidence any Martian life may have left behind.
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It’s sustainable, nutritious and delicious. Scientists need to ramp up efforts to meet this urgent need.
ÄIO’s fermentation process creates healthy, sustainable oils and fats by upcycling low-value industry organics.
Although mammals may be the dominant form of life today, we’re relative newcomers on planet Earth. Here’s our place in natural history.
It is generally ineffective, occasionally poisonous, and driving numerous species to the brink of extinction.
Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn’t make them the behavioral playbook.
It’s 50% stronger than comparable materials used in aerospace.
Beef production is largely responsible for greenhouse gas emissions from the food system.
Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of “The Immortality Key,” unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.
Plants are very sensitive to touch, with research showing that touching a plant can change its genome and launch a cascade of plant hormones.
At least one of Earth’s creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
Its apples taste bad, but institutions all over the world want a descendant or clone of the tree, anyway.
Scientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its powerhouse, the mitochondrion. But there are competing theories about the birth of other organelles such as the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.
Overwintering is profoundly stressful for trees. So why do they bother?
AI is helping us replace petrochemicals with natural enzymes.
They are expected to be cheaper to build and even more reliable than today’s nuclear plants.
Decades ago, a disaster left three million acres of land uninhabitable and killed between 85,600 and 240,000 people. Chernobyl? No. Banqiao dam in China.
Without even realizing it, we’ve actually become pretty god-like in our powers.
Pando is a stand of aspen in Utah that is 14,000 years old and weighs 12 million pounds. Humans threaten to end its long reign.
Metaphors like the Great Chain of Being can lead people to misunderstand evolution and humanity’s place in the web of life.
Ocean fertilization is extremely controversial, but if done correctly, it just might work.
Meet the power plant of the future.
Americans on average consumed about 58 pounds of beef and veal in 2019 – compared with a global average of 14 pounds.
A 19th-century surveying mistake kept lumberjacks away from what is now Minnesota’s largest patch of old-growth trees.
We need more data centers for AI. Developers are getting creative about where to build them.
Did fire change the development of the human brain?
Experiments on suborbital rockets are revealing how to make a better iron furnace.
Flashy desalination technology is more costly and cumbersome than many other solutions.
For better and worse, the Columbian Exchange plugged the Americas into the global system — and there was no going back.