The museum tapped artists — including Chicago rock screenprinter Jay Ryan — to visualize a 15-million-year period in time ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...

Earth's history is marked by violent mass extinctions that have shaped life on the planet. Here's how many of these events ...

From the deep ocean floor to vast underground caverns beneath our feet, these places challenge our understanding of the world ...

The Earth BioGenome Project is racing to sequence the DNA of life, building a global genome library to protect biodiversity.

In an astonishing twist of our technological progress, humans have inadvertently created a space barrier around Earth. This ...

A sweeping new study reveals that humanity has already pushed 60% of Earth’s land outside its safe biosphere zone, with 38% in a high-risk state. By analyzing centuries of data, researchers mapped how ...

A new forecast warns human impacts on oceans will double by 2050, threatening reefs, coasts, and marine life worldwide.

Astronomers have taken a huge leap towards discovering habitable worlds, and the world now eagerly anticipates a rocky planet ...

A new National Academies report reviews evidence gathered by the scientific community since 2009 on greenhouse gas emissions and their effects on U.S. climate, health, and welfare.

An unprecedented effort to sequence the genomes of 150,000 eukaryotic species through inclusive global collaboration.

A new peer-reviewed study examined the impact Indigenous territories have on human health in two categories of diseases, ...