Ice in the Arctic and Antarctica plays a critical role in maintaining life on Earth, and it is melting faster than previously thought. This is threatening our planet with potentially massive sea-level ...

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Billions of years ago, Earth was an uninhabitable rock covered in magma. Scientists are still working to decipher the tale of how it transformed into a blue and green orb teeming with life. However, ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that led to biology, or when the first primitive life forms appeared. But what ...

For all our technological progress, humanity remains confined to a single planet. But that may not always be the case. Over the past few decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, ...

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How critical minerals give China an edge in trade negotiations with U.S. U.S. President Donald Trump wants China to lift restrictions on exporting rare earths and other critical minerals that Beijing ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

From televangelism to Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and today’s internet trolls, this video essay unpacks how alt-right media and ...