New fossil discovery reveals 535 million-year-old worms, annelids, that were already crawling and swimming, reshaping early ...

Dr Peter Verheyen, Sola Society and Academy at Vienna University, discusses intriguing research and discoveries related to ...

Roughly 2.5 million years ago, a nearby star exploded. Around the same time, the diversity of viruses infecting fish in Africa’s Lake Tanganyika rose dramatically. Three researchers from the ...

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We have only one example of biology forming in the universe—life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don’t know what alien life might look like?

Around 700 million years ago, Earth was a frozen, white sphere, its rocky surface buried kilometers under ice. Despite the barren landscape, the evolution of complex life in the oceans was about to ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed. What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes that ...

Wednesday is Earth Day, a global day of support that raises awareness about the environment. Kathleen Rogers is the CEO of ...

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Scientists reveal how long Earth will remain habitable, from rising temperatures to ocean loss and the Sun’s final red giant ...

Geodynamics : the unanswered questions / A.L. Hales -- A global geochemical model for the evolution of the mantle / D.L. Anderson -- Temperature profiles in the earth / O.L. Anderson -- The structure, ...

When UW professor David Catling from the department of Earth and space sciences (ESS) was named a 2026 geochemistry fellow, ...