If the hydrogen-gobbling, methane-producing microorganisms existed, they would have caused their own demiseAncient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms, French scientists reported on Monday. But if they existed, these simple life forms would have altered the atmosphere so profoundly that they triggered a Martian Ice Age and...

A selection of significant moments during the agency’s space exploration and research are captured in the book Out of this World – Historic Milestones in Nasa’s Human Space Flight by Bill Schwartz Continue...

Scientists of color are disrupting the rules of historically colonial institutions in Stem and academia. For Earyn McGee, that means engaging with her public through gamesFor five years now, obscure amphibians and reptiles have been scurrying on to the internet as part of a wildly popular social media science challenge, #FindThatLizard.The Twitter and Instagram campaign, created by Earyn McGee, a...

Covid has led to pandemic fatigue, but for both humanitarian and self-interested reasons, global governments must helpEbola is one of those diseases you’d rather not know about. It has a high mortality rate, often over 50%, and while the symptoms start with a fever and headache, in the latter stages, the body internally bleeds to death. Because it’s spread through body fluids, such as an...

Svante Pääbo deserves his accolade – palaeogenetics is an expanding field that tells us who we areThe Neanderthals have won a Nobel prize. Well, almost. Even if most people haven’t heard of Svante Pääbo, the Swedish geneticist whose work on ancient genomes and human evolution has landed him with 2022’s award for physiology or medicine, or the exact science behind palaeogenomics and...