Two bacteriologists showed that mutations arise spontaneously in bacterial cultures, thereby disproving Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ...

The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that ...

April 12 (UPI) --Everyone looks forward to the weekend, and NASA is no exception as it eagerly awaits the return of multiple space-station experiments that could offer insights into growing vegetables ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Every year, one week in October is designated as National Earth Science Week to provide opportunities for everyone to enhance their understanding of geoscience. Earth Science Week is ...

Deep inside Earth, far below the crust and oceans, lie vast hidden regions that many geophysicists suspect could have shaped ...

The University of Arizona christened a novel earth-science experiment at Biosphere 2 last week with a gentle rain - a demonstration of how researchers will be able to vary climatic conditions on three ...

Early in 1993, a manuscript landed in the Nature offices announcing the results of an unusual — even audacious — experiment. The investigators, led by planetary scientist and broadcaster Carl Sagan, ...

Nearly 1,250 middle and high school students from 71 schools around the world joined Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden for ...

New research deepens the understanding of Earth's crust by testing and ultimately eliminating one popular hypothesis about why continental crust is lower in iron and more oxidized compared to oceanic ...

Artemis 2 astronauts will be studied for how sleep, stress and radiation shape human health in deep space during their moon mission next year. The second installment of NASA's Artemis program to ...

Experiments conducted on 'mouse astronauts' to lay important groundwork for future large-scale mammalian research in orbit - ...