New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...

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O ne billion years ago, Earth was boring as hell. Animals were yet to evolve and most life was small, simple, and slimy. Even ...

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A book that was classified by the CIA for more than 50 years contains a shocking theory about how the world will end. It ...

A new study sheds light on how a species of foraminifera, single-celled organisms found in almost all marine habitats, thrives in a dark, oxygen-free environment.

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You cannot do business on a dead planet,” the photographer and climate activist Cristina Mittermeier says when asked what she ...