A photo of a woman standing next to an English yew in Kew Botanic Gardens in London, England. Christine Dell’Amore poses next to an English yew at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London in 2025. A ...

Two NASA rovers have strengthened the case that ancient Mars may have supported life. While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, long-lasting ...

Human fascination with bottlenose dolphins goes back thousands of years, at least as early as Greek mythology. But it wasn’t ...

When the paleontologists first plucked a massive, scimitar-shaped bone from the desolate sands of the central Sahara in 2019, they didn't immediately recognize it for what it was. It took a return ...

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A robot named Adam was the first of its kind to do science. Adam mimicked a biologist. After coming up with questions to ask about yeast, the machine tested those questions inside a robotic laboratory ...

The takeaway: For decades, battery engineers have gone to great lengths to remove water from their materials. However, new research shows that keeping water inside a key cathode material can sharply ...

A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published two back-to-back ...

Equinor and its partners have made an oil and gas discovery in a prospect near the Gullfaks field in the northern part of Norway’s North Sea, the Norwegian Offshore Directorate said on Monday. Equinor ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) But it wasn’t until the 1960s that methodical research into dolphin communication ...