As Avatar prepares for its first new animated TV series—and a new hero—in over a decade, let's take a look back at just how ...

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

The discovery that farming might not have been the catalyst for civilisation means we must completely rethink the timeline of the first complex societies ...

Earth Commission Report1 provides major new insights into the potential for the transgression of Earth-system boundaries ...

Purple Earth Hypothesis suggests Earth was once a purple planet. Early microbes used retinal, not chlorophyll, for ...

Animals are not just inhabitants of the natural world -- they are its architects. A new study has revealed how hundreds of species shape the landscapes we depend on, from vast termite mounds visible ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

Earth’s core is transforming, which could affect the length of our 24-hour day, Earth’s magnetic field, and more ...

You’re face… to face… with the man who sold the world! It’s an eerie, jarring lyric. One befitting the Halloween season. Terrorizing and horrifying. But what ...

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

The world is so beautiful and atmospheric that it’s easy to spend endless hours in it. The alien symbiote known as Venom has descended onto earth, and there’s the smaller matter of Kraven the ...