Earth’s sixth ocean is forming but will split the African continent in two
A 35-mile-long fissure in East Africa signals the continent’s gradual separation, leading to the formation of a new ocean in ...
Why A 9-Million-Year-Old Great White Shark Ancestor Was Found In A Desert—A Biologist Explains
One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...
“It’s the end of the world as we (now) know it”: Earth’s oxygen supply has an expiration date
A study warns of abrupt deoxidation, a phenomenon that will put an end to life on Earth. When and why will this happen?
Evolving intelligent life took billions of years − but it may not have been as unlikely as many scientists predicted
Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...
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Earth wouldn’t have ice caps without eroding rocks and quiet volcanoes
Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation ...
New theory ups the odds that intelligent aliens exist
“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...
Earth’s First Oceans Were an Acidic Hellscape – Here’s What Happened Next
How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...
Intelligent Aliens May Be Common On Earth-Like Planets, Scientists Say
A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...
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Goodbye to oxygen on Earth — this is the date scientists have set for when the air will no longer be breathable
Two scientists from Toho University and NASA’s Nexus for Exoplanet System Science ran computer simulations and found that ...
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Future of Weis Earth Science Museum uncertain as UW Oshkosh Fox Cities campus closure looms
The Weis Earth Science Museum, Wisconsin’s only dedicated geological history museum, faces an uncertain future as UW Oshkosh ...
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How the Moon became a place
For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...
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For Centuries, Indigenous People Lived in These Desert Canyons. Now, New Technology Reveals Extraordinary Details About This Sacred Site
In the Arizona desert, researchers are learning so much more about the peoples who have inhabited this land since antiquity ...