Quoted: Venus is famous as a hellishly inhospitable burning world, choked with carbon dioxide and crushed under almost a hundred times Earth atmospheric pressure. But recent data suggests that our nearest planetary neighbor might once have been a bit more like...

Quoted: In his famous lecture on Life in the Universe, Stephen Hawking asks: "What are the chances that we will encounter some alien form of life, as we explore the galaxy?" If the argument about the time scale for the appearance...

Quoted: Although It has taken homo sapiens several million years to evolve from the apes, the useful information in our DNA, has probably changed by only a few million bits. So the rate of biological evolution in humans, Stephen Hawking points...

Quoted: Stephen Hawking believes that one of the major factors in the possible scarcity of intelligent life in our galaxy is the high probability of an asteroid or comet colliding with inhabited planets. We have observed, Hawking points out in Life...

Quoted: The appearance of flowering plants on Earth, and their rapid dissemination during the Cretaceous can be attributed to their capacity to transform the world to their own needs, according to a new perspective on their evolution. Flowering plants changed conditions during this period to suit themselves. They provide an entirely new explanation for what Darwin considered to be one of the greatest mysteries with which he was confronted.

Quoted: Ernst Haeckel - philosopher, professor, physician, naturalist, biologist and artist. The pinnacle of his work - Art Forms of Nature - began publication in 1899 and is still an astonishing record of life on earth. When art and science combine, something sublime can come to pass.

Quoted: Momentous discoveries in the study of life on Earth.

Quoted: Drastic emissions cuts won't stop the global warming from gases already in the atmosphere