Divers in Florida are exploring an underwater mermaid reef near Palm Beach where sculptures double as artificial reefs that ...

A Chicago artist and musician has seen it all and done it all; among his many qualities are curiosity and kindness. Sura Dupart grew up in Bronzeville at 46th and Langley as one of 11 children.

Chinedu Eleh’s story is one of grit and transformation — from artisan apprentice in Nigeria to mathematician and researcher at ...

Floods that cut off access, heatwaves that overwhelm cooling systems, and water shortages that drive up costs are no longer ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

Scientists demonstrated that an Earthly extremophile might withstand being ejected from the Red Planet on debris spewed into ...

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

The Evo2 genomic language model can generate short genome sequences, but scientists say further advances are needed to write ...

Our single-celled ancestor lived in a world without plants, animals or oxygen-rich oceans. Yet, this seemingly simple microorganism took the first steps toward complex life. From this ancestor emerged ...

One of my abiding memories of the politics class at my high school was when we learnt about Shulamith Firestone (1945–2012), the feminist and author of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist ...

Can the bend of a banana give us insight into cancer? What does the shape of a rice grain have to do with infertility? The ...