Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

But now, a team led by Rodney Ruoff at the Institute for Basic Science in Ulsan, South Korea, has shattered this paradigm, ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.