Animal life began in aquatic environments more than 600 million years ago. Around 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian ...

Climate litigation is a pernicious tax on regular Americans. It’s pure economic waste that gets passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices.

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It is no secret that President Donald Trump’s administration does not believe in climate change, resulting in irreversible ...

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Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University have uncovered a previously unknown system of internal "trade winds" that ...

UMaine ecologist Brian McGill has earned one of science’s highest honors for work that’s reshaping how the world understands biodiversity.

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There are some scientists whose contributions to the stores of human knowledge are so well-known that they have become household names. I don’t think it’s going too far out on a limb to say that ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Lamarckian inheritance, a one-time rival to Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, suggests that epigenetic information can be passed between ...