McFadden's attempt to pinpoint what makes life ""alive"" begins with a long, slow, multidisciplinary explanation of life's fundamental processes and ends with a fantastic quest through the strangest ...

A new look at Earth’s deep past is reshaping how scientists understand the planet’s climate, and it carries a quiet warning ...

Far beneath the surface of the ocean lies the largest and least explored habitat on Earth. The deep sea is cold, dark, highly ...

The evolution of human fingers showcases a fascinating variety of lengths tailored to specific purposes. This diverse ...

Boston, MA – July 8, 2026 – The award-winning PBS science series, NOVA, part of the GBH documentary unit, today announced EVOLUTION, a new five-part series that traces the epic journey of life, from a ...

Six Iowa 4-H members recently returned from an unforgettable 11-day STEM in Motion expedition through Ecuador, the Galápagos ...

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

Deep oceans contain microbes with yet-to-be-discovered properties that could drive future innovations in biotechnology.

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of the oldest arguments in human origins unsettled: were Neanderthals following ...

Living systems rely on molecules fitting together precisely. A key concept is chirality – many biological building blocks come in mirror-image forms, like left and right hands. Life on Earth mostly ...

West Virginia and Pennsylvania second and third graders will learn science through hockey in the Pittsburgh Penguins Science ...

The first six months of the year have brought us popular science reads on everything from consciousness to cosmology. Liz ...