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Although mammals may be the dominant form of life today, we're relative newcomers on planet Earth. Here's our place in natural history.
Since our arrival, humans have driven a seven-fold drop in the mass of wild land mammals.
Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.
Known as the Great Oxygenation Event, Earth froze over as oxygen accumulated in our atmosphere, nearly driving all life extinct.
All biological systems are wildly disordered. Yet somehow, that disorder enables plant photosynthesis to be nearly 100% efficient.
How do these little beasties detect light anyway?
The crabs' blue blood contains an ancient immune defense mechanism that has helped save countless human lives.
Probably not. Even though we're still investigating the origin of life, the evidence suggests that cells came much later.
It's strange to think that something that died 76m years ago plays a role in modern ecosystems, but life is opportunistic.
Scientists discovered microbes that have lived on Earth for millions of years.
Do you have a magnetic compass in your head?
A climate catastrophe 2 billion years ago almost ended life on Earth. Here’s the biggest lesson of all. Although it was more than 4½ billion years ago that planet Earth formed, […]
Even though 18,000 species are discovered and named each year we are still losing ground, writes the College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
A chorus of new science is showing that evolution has orchestrated life to leave no room for solos. A grander view of life is revealing higher-level, need-centric relational logic patterns (as in David Haskell’s The Songs of Trees).
And what are the odds that it’s out there? “Since stars appear to be suns, and suns, according to the common opinion, are bodies that serve to enlighten, warm, and sustain […]
You’ll frequently hear people say “the science is settled.” Scientifically speaking, can it ever be? “All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to […]