For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on ...

Microplastics have previously been detected throughout the human body including in the blood, saliva, liver, kidneys, lungs, ...

Yungang's caverns have carvings of Central Asian merchants leading camel trains laden with silk, and Angkor Wat's stone walls ...

On the contrary—while weathering or abiotic chemical processes ... “we suggest that they are of biological origin.” Whatever microbes carved out the tunnels have been long dead, though ...

Today’s trade war mustn’t distract India from pursuing a clear domestic agenda for economic success. Here’s a thought ...

Humankind’s defining testament will be dramatically different from the skeletons, bones and other biological traces ... to resist weathering, to resist sunlight, to resist abrasion and not ...

A discovery in the deserts of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia has opened new doors in the world of geomicrobiology. Mysterious micro-burrows carved into ancient marble and limestone have been ...

Imagine the planet tens of millions of years from now. Homo sapiens as a species is likely long gone, wiped out by a mass extinction it helped unleash. What traces will humanity leave embedded in ...