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Scientists have uncovered a hidden world 3.6 kilometres beneath the Greenland Sea, where methane mounds and life thrive in complete darkness. The discovery could transform climate science and ...

Podcast host Joe Rogan set off a wave of online curiosity after openly wondering whether the death of a top MIT scientist ...

This video takes viewers back to the extraordinary Paleozoic Era, the time when life flourished long before dinosaurs existed ...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on Friday that he would meet soon with President Trump, as Ukraine and the ...

The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly is critically endangered, with the last known larva living in a lab in New ...