Green oceans on early Earth, shaped by iron, pushed microbes to evolve light-absorbing tools that worked in green light.

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Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided a closer look at the aftermath of a star that wreaked violence on its planet ...

The Galileo Project at Harvard University is a group of researchers who are working to scan the entire sky and analyze the ...

In the waters off Iwo Jima, a volcanic island in Japan’s Satsuma archipelago, the sea has a distinct green tint. It’s not ...