A team of Chinese researchers has identified eight caves in Mars’ Hebrus Valles that may have been sculpted by water. These ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

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SAN DIEGO, March 25, 2025 — Deep below Earth’s surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the chemicals fossilized within shine in brilliant hues of ...

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Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Hidden beneath Earth’s surface are caverns and pathways that hold the secrets of our planet’s very beginnings. Even after decades of exploration, there are ...

Just when we thought we had described all the possible marine environmental recipients of plastic pollution, new research ...

Bees are frequently associated with large queen-serving colonies featuring hundreds if not thousands of insects. In actuality ...

The rock formations in caves are chemistry fossils — that glow. These rocks are made of calcite, a form of calcium carbonate. Impurities trapped in calcite cause the mineral to fluoresce different ...

MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. — A new-to-science species of ancient shark was recently discovered in Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. The small shark named Clavusodens mcginnisi, or “McGinnis’ nail tooth,” ...