In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben ...

A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence ...

Researchers say they discovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought, calling into ...

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether it would have worked without jamming ...

Michael Schulman writes about the star’s return to the stage in the musical “The Last Five Years ... by seeing the ordinary world as science fiction. In her newest book to be translated ...

A recent study suggests that Homo sapiens may have used natural sunscreens, tailored clothing, and caves to shield themselves from increased solar radiation during the Laschamps excursion, about ...