“Geoneutrinos are a type of antineutrino produced by radioactive decays happening inside the Earth. By measuring geoneutrinos, we can measure the chemical composition of the planet,” explains Alex ...

Cyanobacteria, as they still exist today, were the first organisms to carry out photosynthesis and release oxygen. Produced in primeval oceans about 2.5 billion years ago, this oxygen accumulated in ...

Art is much like peeling an onion; only upon removing one layer does the next layer reveal. In the Indian tradition, the quality of a masterpiece lies in what i ...

When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...

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This shift, researchers say, marks a climatic tipping point—and it may have shaped the evolution of our species. “Things were ...

Bates students are getting a firsthand look at 7,000 years of ancient climate history with a group of lake sediment cores ...

Supercomputer simulations identify stellar rotation as the mechanism driving chemical mixing in red giants, explaining long-observed surface composition changes during stellar evolution.

Scientists detected a lithium spike nearly 60 miles above Earth and traced it to a Falcon 9 rocket re-entry, raising concerns.

A research team has produced the first direct experimental evidence that Earth’s iron core traps hydrogen inside nanoscale ...

Images: Carolin Dreher, Jeremiah Shuster Scanning electron microscope images of the spherical cyanobacteria Synechococcus sp.

A closer look at Earth’s history shows that melting ice sheets temporarily increased stratification in the Southern Ocean.