A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by ...

A 42,000-year-old Korean crater has yielded microbial fossils that could rewrite the origin of Earth's oxygen, and nobody saw ...

South Korean researchers discovered more than 20 oxygen-producing stromatolites inside the Hapcheon impact crater, the first direct evidence that post-impact hydrothermal lakes incubated microbial lif ...

Tropical coral reefs support the highest levels of biodiversity in the ocean. This vital ecosystem depends on reef-building ...

Metals like copper oxidize — reacting with oxygen in the air — but gold doesn’t, thanks to a quick switch in atom arrangement ...

A Canadian who has worked in the gaming industry for over two decades, Beck grew up on games such as Final Fantasy and Super Mario Bros. He specalizes in roleplaying games, but covers titles in almost ...

Gold doesn’t tarnish like similar metals do. A new paper says that the key is the intricate “herringbone” pattern of its ...

Combining fossil and geochemical analysis, researchers showed that eukaryotic cells were already complex and aerobic 1.7 ...

A research team from Sungkyunkwan University and Kyungpook National University has developed a non-precious ...

Carbon dioxide (CO2) separation is central to technologies ranging from natural gas purification to hydrogen production and ...

Asteroid impacts may have helped make Earth habitable. (Discovery Access/Getty Images) Somehow, on this beautiful blue marble ...

The microscopic 1.7-billion-year-old creatures are among our oldest ancestors; pioneers which gave rise to all multicellular ...