A team of scientists led by the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Helmholtz Center for ...

The Earth sciences will become increasingly prominent in the 21st century as humanity confronts daunting challenges in finding natural resources to sustain Earth’s burgeoning population, in mitigating ...

The wheel of time isn’t turning like it used to. Scientists have discovered that our planet’s core has been rotating at a slower rate for nearly 15 years — and it could mean longer days for some. The ...

Life on Earth became possible when the planet's solid inner core emerged hundreds of millions of years ago, according to new research. Scientists said that around 565 million years ago, the Earth's ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as ...

Several studies have predicted that not all geomagnetic reversals have been discovered, but it was unknown in which periods they might be hidden. Researchers led by the National Institute of Polar ...

NASA invites the public to join the Space Umbrella project, analyzing MMS data to study magnetic reconnection and solar wind interactions affecting space weather and technology.

New research, based on 3.24-billion-year-old rock samples from Western Australia, suggests ancient Earth was predominantly covered by ocean with minimal or no exposed landmasses. The analysis of ...

Life on Earth is complex and hard to understand, but new research may have finally given us a much-needed glimpse into the patterns that life follows as it spreads across our planet. According to a ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Scientists from West Virginia University continue to find more support for a process that removes and collects rare earth minerals from acid mine drainage. Paul Ziemkiewicz WVU ...

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