You get smart. Then you get uncomfortably smart. That rare, off-the-charts, stop-everyone-in-their-tracks type of ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Everything on Earth is made of atoms, most of which are closely packed together in the form of minerals. Life has its uses for minerals—ask a coral reef—but its essence lies in atoms arranged as ...