Around 2 billion years ago, Oklo became a natural nuclear reactor beneath Africa, and its radioactive remains are still there

Long before forests spread across the continents, before the first animals walked on land and even before the age of ...
Science Daily

Earth has a natural thermostat and scientists finally know how it works

Scientists have identified a hidden feedback loop that may explain how Earth has regulated its climate for tens of millions ...
KSMU

Astro Brief: Origins of Life

Organic materials are found all over our solar system, but life so-far only exists on Earth. Our planet's early stages were ...

Scientists found South America’s first insect-bearing amber, a 112-million-year-old time capsule from a lost dinosaur-era forest

For more than a century, amber has helped scientists reconstruct vanished worlds by preserving tiny fragments of life that ...
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UAE's Wadi Wurayah National Park awaits UNESCO World Heritage verdict

Unique geological site in Fujairah is home to Arabian tahr and caracal, as well as dragonfly long thought to be extinct ...
Stuff.co.nz

Magnitude 8.2: The disaster scenario on New Zealand's most dangerous fault

Following Thursday’s M5.9 earthquake in the South Island, NEMA director of Civil Defence Emergency Management John Price said there was a 75% chance the Alpine Fault would “go off in the next 50 years ...

America is spending billions pivoting away from Chinese minerals and these countries could benefit

The U.S. is looking abroad as it tries to move away from its dependence on Beijing.

How Central Oregon’s lava fields helped train Apollo astronauts for the moon landing

Before Apollo 11’s “giant leap,” astronauts trained in Oregon’s lava fields. Newly surfaced footage and photos show suit and ...