Many particle accelerators rely on superconducting radiofrequency components made of niobium. Nuclear physicists found that ...

Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...

Environmental stress in evolution can be reframed as a powerful engine of innovation, not simply a barrier to survival.

Oxygen is crucial for aquatic life to thrive. But levels of dissolved oxygen have declined in many watery environments, ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.