Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

At 11 feet (3.4m) tall and nearly 27 feet (8.2m) long, Cooper’s pointy-backed herbivore – affectionately known as Apex – is ...

With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate ...

Humanity's origins have long captivated scientists and historians alike, sparking debates and research into where and why ...

In a ground-breaking discovery nestled in the mountains of the Caucasus, archaeologists have unearthed a partial jawbone of Homo erectus in Georgia, which ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event.

“Thanks to our results, we know that the proto-Earth was initially a dry rocky planet,” says Kruttasch. “It can therefore be ...

A new model uncovers how Earth’s liquid core has sustained its magnetic field since the planet’s beginnings, offering new ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation ...

The continents haven’t always sat where they are today, and that movement entirely changed life on our planet. Over millions […] ...

WJBC and The Pantagraph rode the radio quiz show wave of the late 1940s with "Quizdown," drawing teams from Central Illinois grade schools.