A Stanford study shows that tiny electrical charges in water droplets caused reactions that developed organic matter from inorganic materials.

The earliest lifeforms, cyanobacteria, appeared around 4 billion years ago. These organisms, now known as algae, were among the first to engage in oxygenic photosynthesis.

"It is always difficult to establish if the eclipses were seen in the ancient past as bad omens or good omens." ...

Ancient oceans, which were heavy on iron, interacted differently with light wavelengths, retracting green light into the ...

But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...

In the second instalment of his rebooted Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy analyses Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury’s scores for the Alex Garland films Civil War (2024) and Annihilatio ...

In this week's installment of Artistic Perspectives, we come back to the second of four rotating categories: Nature. Join us ...

They are part of the modern landscape, but they’re always going wrong, sometimes with terrible consequences, and take months ...