A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...
Every living organism uses tiny quantities of metals to carry out biological functions, including breathing, transcribing DNA ...
Very few species on Earth today are considered “living fossils”–species that have survived over ... [+] hundreds of millions ...
An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...
High in the Canadian wilderness, Smithsonian scientists search for ancient minerals that could explain the origins of the ...
Deep beneath our feet, at a staggering depth of over 5,100km, lies Earth's inner core — a solid ball of iron and nickel that ...
Deep beneath our feet, at a staggering depth of over 5,100km, lies Earth's inner core—a solid ball of iron and nickel that ...
Our Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and ... can produce a magnetic field - died before the rocks crystallized… if the ...
Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million ...
“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...
Some of the most dramatic climate events in history are the Snowball Earth episodes, which occurred hundreds of millions of ...
How did life on Earth begin? and Is there life elsewhere in the universe? Given the enormous interest in these questions, you ...