Although sunlight is one of the cleanest forms of renewable energy available, clearing large swathes of desert habitat to ...

Deep-sea sediment layers show rare microbial wrinkle structures that formed in environments far beyond the reach of sunlight. Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University ...

Anna Ghaemi was a student at the Palisades High School and watched her community burn on Jan. 7, 2025. She says, “In an ...

Life beneath the surface of one of the driest places on Earth may be far more complex than once believed. Researchers have found that soil can support surprisingly robust and varied forms of life even ...

Mars often feels distant and silent, but the surface stays far from calm. Winds move across dry ground every day and lift fine dust into the air. Over time, this moving dust forms spinning columns ...

You know how it goes: You’re trying to get some shut-eye in your bunk after a long shift of scraping samples of prebiotic material from red rocks in Utopia Planitia, and before you know it, your alarm ...

The goal of sending astronauts to the surface of Mars has been a major point of contention, with the likes of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arguing that we should skip the Moon entirely in favor of the Red ...

Google launched Android Emergency Live Video on Wednesday, which allows people to stream video when contacting emergency responders. This feature could help give first responders extra context in ...

If humans are to expand our habitat beyond Earth’s bounds, we will undoubtedly need the support of plant life: to remove carbon dioxide, provide oxygen, and create fertile soil. But is it possible for ...

What can moss being exposed to the vacuum of space teach scientists about the survivability of plants in harsh environments? This is what a recent study published in in iScience hopes to address as a ...

A team of researchers from Japan has tested protenemata (juvenile moss), brood cells (specialized stem cells that emerge under stress conditions) and sporophytes (encapsulated spores) of the model ...

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