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A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

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The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

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In the late 1800s scientists began to interrogate the neurological basis of dreams. That changed in Sigmund Freud’s time but ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

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A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

Lindsey Fields, one of the 67 victims of the D.C. plane crash, was a loving wife, mother and biology teacher, her cousin ...