It's slightly larger than a 5-liter water bottle, and is whizzing around the Earth at a speed of 7.5 kilometers per second.

A high-resolution analysis of the global diversity of fossils spanning 2 billion years shows how a series of super ice ages ...

Weizmann Institute researchers have developed a new way to track the culprit – giant viruses – and identify their traces in specific types of tiny algae that they attack.

Stanford researchers have identified multiple forms of a ubiquitous enzyme in microbes that flourish in low-oxygen regions ...

Millions of you have turned to Popular Science each month in 2024 to see the latest scientific breakthroughs and ...

How BC researcher Jier Huang is using tiny molecules to help solve one of the world’s biggest problems—climate change.

Utilizing zooplankton's feeding habits, researchers aim to boost oceanic carbon sequestration by introducing clay particles to their diet, significantly speeding up the biological carbon pump. A study ...

As a kid, it was tough for me to grasp the massive time scale of Earth's history. Now, with nearly two decades of experience ...

With carbon emissions continuing to grow exponentially, the key to unlocking a greener world could lie in the feeding (and ...

Old Short-Lived Forest Didn’t Rot Away Due to Sea’s Salty Water, It Was Preserved by Microbes The Fossil Forest in Dorset was ...

The Fossil Forest in Dorset is a stretch of southern English coastline peppered with living mounds of limestone that hide the remains of cypress trees from the late Jurassic period.

Eat your veggies, kids. But for the adults, you can drink them, too. Greens powders have been popping up all over social ...