When Did Ocean Acidity Allow Life To Start?
A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...
The world's oldest continent that formed 4bn years ago is also the fastest moving
The continent drifts northeast at about 2.7 inches (7cm) per year - a rate so significant that GPS coordinates must be ...
Scientists understood physics of climate change in the 1800s – thanks to a woman named Eunice Foote
(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...
Was the emergence of intelligent life on Earth just a fluke? Some scientists think not
Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...