Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...

A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

The deeper question with respect to understanding the extraordinary events of the mid to late 19th and early 20th century is what happened socially or environmentally to allow for the extraordinary ...

In a groundbreaking shift to our understanding of life’s origins, a new study from Penn State University challenges the ...

How do we respond when atheists point to Christian beliefs that they say are scientifically contradicted and cannot be real ...

Dust and other debris would rise into the atmosphere on Bennu striking Earth, blocking out the Sun and cooling the planet to ...

WSU researchers have created HuT mice with human-like short telomeres, allowing for groundbreaking studies on aging, cancer, ...