The thin air of Mars has long been treated as a problem to be solved, a hostile mix of carbon dioxide and dust that stands ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

The Big Ideas: What Is History? Through the ages, human survival has depended on our ability to cultivate and preserve plant diversity. By Cary Fowler Cary Fowler is an agriculturalist and a founder ...

Ants may be small, but they are quite rugged, especially in the face of extreme stressful situations like nuclear radiation.

A new study published in the Advances in Space Research journal suggests that moisture in the Martian atmosphere could serve ...