For many years, scientists believed that life in Utah’s Great Salt Lake was extremely limited. Its caustic, hyper-saline ...

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"The coldest water anywhere in the ocean is beneath the Antarctic ice shelves," Dr. Steve Rintoul, an oceanographer and ...

The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life's beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world ...

Reptiles are among the most adaptable species on earth, and they can be found in deserts, forests, swamps, and even cities. Snakes, lizards, turtles, and crocodiles have succeeded in making their ...

Florida won’t be getting hit with massive blankets of snow and ice like the rest of the U.S., but even frosty windshields and ...

Nevada was once home to Prometheus, an ancient bristlecone pine that was also the oldest living organism on the planet. Then ...

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Greek writer and philosopher Nikos Kazantzakis once said, “All my life, one of my greatest desires has been to travel, to see ...