Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

We live in an era where information is more accessible than ever before. Paradoxically, this hasn’t made us wiser—it’s made ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation ...

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.