First, these essays embody a diligent critique of modernity's anthropocentrism that tends to elevate humans above all other ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Feb. 10, 2025 — Earth's inner core is undergoing structural transformation. Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core.

A recent study investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions. Researchers pushed these conditions to the limits, ...

what happens at the ICB still has some implications for Earth’s long-term evolution.” Mindy Weisberger is a science writer and media producer whose work has appeared in Live Science ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The compelling 2021 study tells the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...