About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration. By Carl Zimmer Geography is one of the things that sets ...

Construction robots in extreme environments encounter various application scenarios, including hazardous work environments, polluted and harmful environments, as well as extreme conditions in deep ...

In a groundbreaking discovery that expands the known boundaries of life habitats, scientists have uncovered extremophiles thriving in a blue ‘volcanic goo’ deep in the ocean. This finding builds on ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age. According to a new ...

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Runners from the North Pole Marathon Group that were supported by Dr. Luke Apisa and the rest of the MGB SPEAR MED team. They traveled to the North Pole to see how the human body adapts to extreme ...

First, it was in space, and now, it’s the world’s oceans' waves. When it comes to bringing solar energy to extreme environments, Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTI) seems to have a lock on it ...

In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars. Sagittarius C is one of ...

This combination of 2007, 2018 and 2012 photos shows, from left, the Cederberg mountain range in South Africa, the Tenere desert in Niger and savanna in South Africa. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, ...