If you've ever wondered why we are here, then you can thank Jupiter for part of the answer. A new study from Rice University ...

Buried beneath the pine trees of eastern Oregon lies the largest living organism ever discovered. Nicknamed the “Humongous ...

An ambitious plan to sequence genomes for 1.85 million eukaryotic species on our planet is underway. It's a massive ...

Described as a "knowledge collider," and now with a pledge of one billion euros from the European Union, the Living Earth Simulator is a new big data and supercomputing project that will attempt to ...

Chinese scientists say they have recovered rare earth minerals from a living plant, a finding researchers believe could be ...

Scientists reveal the first global count of living carbon in seagrass meadows, showing these ocean plants are powerful ...

MANKATO — At this year’s 20th annual Living Earth Conference, organizers are taking what they call a bold step: laying the foundation for a new undertaking called the Mankato Area Earth Coalition. The ...

China in a recent breakthrough has reportedly achieved the world's first extraction of a naturally formed mineral with rare ...

Ask Peter Godfrey-Smith to your cocktail party and chances are he’ll soon be distracted. Your average social gathering, the Australian philosopher tells us in “Living on Earth,” is “among other things ...