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Bees are winged insects that feed on nectar and pollen from flowers and sometimes produce honey. There are around 20,000 species of honeybees, of which 270…
A rock sample from Earth’s mantle viewed under a microscope Johan Lissenberg In the middle of the North Atlantic, geologists have drilled 1,268 metres below the…
Shackleton Crater on the south pole of the moon is an area in permanent shadowLROC/Shadowcam/NASA/KARI/ASU A backup of Earth-based life could be safely stored in a…
A recent study reveals that climate change is fundamentally reshaping the Earth, impacting its core. The melting of polar ice caps and glaciers due to global…
You may be surprised by how little we actually know about the inner workings of the Earth. While we have a good grasp of how the…
Fossil and molecular evidence suggests that complex multicellular organisms arose and proliferated during the Neoproterozoic Era (1-541 million years ago). An extreme glacial period during the…
This story is part of our “Cosmic Perspective” series, which confronts the incredible vastness of the universe and our place in it. Read the rest of…
The movement of Earth’s inner core has been a topic of debate in the scientific community for the past 20 years, with some studies suggesting that…
Physicists at the University of Vienna have used a maximally entangled quantum state of light paths in a large interferometer to experimentally measure the speed of…
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes some crazy ideas for how to tinker with the universe and tests their effects against the laws…
In recent decades, scientists have observed a decrease in atmospheric moisture leading to drying soils, water-starved plants, withering vegetation, and increased forest fires. This phenomenon is…
Considered one of West Antarctica’s most infamous glaciers, the “doomsday glacier” has earned its nickname due to the potentially significant rise in sea levels it could…
Accurate assessments of global river flows and water storage are important to inform water management practices, but current estimates of global river flows represent a significant…
Recovering ancient records of the Earth's magnetic field is difficult because the magnetization of rocks is often reset by heating during burial due to tectonic movements…
In the realm of earthquakes, one should always anticipate the unexpected. This is the message conveyed by seismologists Professor Eric Curry from Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS)…
Global warming is causing the Earth’s rotation to slow slightly, which could affect the way we measure time. A study published Wednesday found that the melting…
Australian and French geoscientists have used the geological record of Earth's deep ocean to discover a link between our home planet and the orbit of Mars.…
The planets are doing a gravitational dance around the sun Shutterstock/Johan Swanepoel Mars’ gravitational pull could be strong enough to shake up Earth’s oceans and shift…
From a detailed analysis of Mimas’s orbital motion based on data from NASA’s Cassini mission, planetary researchers from the Sorbonne, the University of Nantes, Queen Mary…
Deep underground in the heart of Asia, two giant plates are colliding with each other. Violent, slow-motion collisions between the geological plates are continuously shaping the…
Launch of the Peregrine Lunar Module on a Vulcan rocket on January 8thAPFootage / Alamy Stock Photo The mission of the Hayabusa lander is over. The…
After more than a week in space, the doomed lunar lander met a violent end Thursday as it burned up in Earth’s atmosphere, ending its mission.A…
NASA’s EMIT has produced the first global map of hematite, goethite, and kaolinite in the dry regions of Earth using data from the year ending November…
Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library When I found out the date of the end of the Earth, everything seemed so simple. Five billion years from now, the…
Earth’s magnetosphere, essential for protecting us from solar radiation, is in sharp contrast to Mars, which has lost its protective field. Studying this shield, especially through…
New study shows that humans, not climate, caused decline of megafauna 50,000 years ago New research from Aarhus University confirms that it was humans, not climate,…