I was listening to the science podcast 'Short Wave' from Spotify. The theme was 'How much of Earth's life is still ...
Earth’s interior is far more complex than its familiar division into crust, mantle and core suggests. Seismic measurements, ...
Water-rock chemistry helped methane-producing microbes survive extreme alkaline conditions modeled on Enceladus’s hidden ...
The difficult "homework" left behind by NewtonWe hear about Isaac Newton's "Law of Universal Gravitation" in school science ...
In 2015, ESA astronaut Tim Peake carried rocket seeds to the International Space Station, launching a groundbreaking research ...
Is there life elsewhere, or is Earth unique in the universe? This is one of humanity's great unanswered questions. One way to approach this mystery is to investigate how life began here on Earth. Our ...
Scientists left structures up to 100 meters under the surface. Here’s what they found when they retrieved them 10 years later ...
It is a bizarre fact of our modern world that—despite women’s rights, black rights, and immigrant rights being championed—the ...
From searching for micro-cold trap ice to exploring underground lava tubes and testing space-made materials, NASA is laying ...
A rare-earth compound developed a strange magnetic liquid crystal state, with spins retaining direction after conventional order vanished.
Several times since the age of dinosaurs, the solid part of our planet has rolled over, drowning some continents and lifting ...
Jeff Bezos' Earth Fund adds more than $25 mn for Pacific ocean conservation as it works to distribute the remainder of his ...