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Iron-rich rocks near ancient lake sites on Mars could hold vital clues that show life once existed there, research suggests. These rocks — which formed in lake beds — are the best place to seek fossil evidence of life from billions of years ago, researchers say. A new study that ...

An international collaboration of scientists, led by the University of Leicester, has investigated Earth’s climate over half a billion years ago by combining climate models and chemical analyses of fossil shells about 1mm long. The research, published in Science Advances, suggests that early animals diversified within a climate similar to ...

Glaciers in Alaska’s Denali National Park are melting faster than at any time in the past four centuries because of rising summer temperatures, a new study finds. New ice cores taken from the summit of Mt. Hunter in Denali National Park show summers there are least 1.2-2 degrees Celsius (2.2-3.6 ...

Trade pacts typically require years of detailed negotiations. The North American Free Trade Agreement needed two years. Creation of the World Trade Organization took eight. The Trump administration wants to remake global trade in a matter of months. To secure agreements quickly, the White House has taken a contentious approach ...

By analysing a prehistoric site in the Libyan desert, a team of researchers from the universities of Huddersfield, Rome and Modena & Reggio Emilia has been able to establish that people in Saharan Africa were cultivating and storing wild cereals 10,000 years ago. In addition to revelations about early agricultural ...

Water, water, everywhere! This is our moon, pockmarked with craters and scratches that show its rich history of run-ins with other objects in our solar system. But this time it’s something below the surface that has scientists excited. We knew there was water on the moon—and a decent amount, too—but ...

Advertisement BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Syrian government, seizing on a chance to reclaim territory lost in its ever-escalating civil war, has loosed a devastating bombardment on a rebel-held Damascus suburb, killing at least 200 people, many of them children, aid workers said Tuesday. Syrian officials vowed to show no quarter ...

Advertisement 2018: Children walking by a mural celebrating the Kosovo Liberation Army in Rufc i Ri. Saturday is the 10th anniversary of Kosovo’s declaration of independence, but corruption and a stagnant economy give its people little to celebrate. PRISTINA, Kosovo — I first arrived in Kosovo nearly 20 years ago. ...

If you tried to start a car that’s been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired up Wednesday after 37 years without use. Voyager 1, NASA’s farthest and fastest spacecraft, is ...

By GRETCHEN MORGENSON For the past 20 years or so, as a business columnist for The New York Times, I’ve had a front-row seat for bull and bear markets, scandals, crises and management mischief. But I am leaving The Times, and this is my last shot at Fair Game. So ...