The mission to colonize Mars has captured the imagination of scientists and enthusiasts alike. With NASA and SpaceX leading the charge, the once distant dream of establishing a human settlement on the ...

Supporters of planetary colonization argue that becoming a multi-planet species could safeguard us from potentially ...

The fetus does not reside in a sterile intrauterine environment and is exposed to commensal bacteria from the maternal gut/blood stream that cross the placenta and enter the amniotic fluid. This ...

One of the simplest hypotheses used to explain species coexistence is the competition–colonization trade-off, that is, species can stably coexist in a landscape if they show a trade-off between ...

Some invasive plants can form persistent banks of seeds that remain under the soil for years, and this makes their eradication practically impossible. Over time, this invisible population of large ...

A Darkling Sea, James Cambias' first novel, is the perfect action romp for people who miss old-fashioned stories of planetary colonization. It has all the gee-whiz wonder of a classic space opera tale ...

Uncross those fingers, unfurrow that brow and breathe a big, candle-snuffing sigh of relief: Firaxis hasn't mucked up. The ball has not been dropped, the pooch has not been screwed, the baby's ...

An alumnus of Simon Sanchez High School and now a doctoral candidate in clinical-community psychology at the University of ...

The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge, ...