Chinese researchers have recently challenged the long-held belief that "all life depends on sunlight." In a study published ...

At the upcoming U.N. Food Systems Summit Stocktake, it's time to ask: Are the actions we’re taking actually making enough ...

One of the most exciting places to study resilient microbes, that survive without sunlight, is Europa, a moon of Jupiter, ...

Learn about the technology that may help astronauts survive on the moon by extracting water from lunar soil and producing ...

Meta used AI models to come up with concrete recipes that are faster-curing than man-made ones, while also cutting carbon ...

At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How ...

At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How ...

Scientists have converted food waste into biodegradable plastic using bacteria, offering a dual fix for global food and ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about water, planets, and life itself.

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely disordered—is actually sprinkled with tiny crystals, changing our fundamental ...

Ice in space, long believed to be completely disordered like frozen water without structure, is turning out to be more complex. New research from (UCL) and the University of Cambridge has shown that ...