An international team of scientists, including a senior researcher at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, has ...

The break up of the supercontinent Nuna transformed the Earth’s surface, creating shallow marine habitats that may have given rise to eukaryotic life.

About the size of a full-size pickup truck, a newly launched satellite by NASA and its partners will provide ocean and ...

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...

Researchers from the University of Vienna discovered MISO bacteria that use iron minerals to oxidize toxic sulfide, creating energy and producing sulfate. This biological process reshapes how ...

New research reveals that Earth’s so-called “Boring Billion” was a time of dramatic change beneath the surface.

This fern was already known to be a hyperaccumulator, able to thrive in REE-rich soils in southern China by absorbing the metals. The researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry wanted to ...

If the atmosphere were not dragged with our planet, you could utilize the insane relative wind speeds to decrease flight time ...