Ancient Rocks Hold Evidence for Life Before Oxygen
This is a microscopic image of 2.5 billion-year-old sulfur-oxidizing bacterium. Somewhere between Earth's creation …
This is a microscopic image of 2.5 billion-year-old sulfur-oxidizing bacterium. Somewhere between Earth's creation …
Scientists in Greenland excavating rocks that may hold 3.8-billion-year-old evidence of life. Credit: Laure Gauthiez …
Pulau Banta island in the Banta Sea. Credit: Jialiang Gao/Wikimedia Geologists have for the first time seen and document…
The Somali Plate Why are there volcanoes on an island that isn't near any tectonic boundaries? Madagascar, the big…
Chinggiskhaania bifurcata is the scientific name of one of the new kinds of multicellular algae recently found preserved …
Researchers believe the quakes could be caused by pieces of the Earth's mantle breaking off and sinking into the plane…
Paleontologists in Peru have unearthed the fossil of a 40 million-year-old “walking whale.” Found in the Ocucaje Desert in s…
Popocatépetl volcano (archive photo) By CEDRIC DE ALICOQUE Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano surprised observers wit…
Subduction zone geometry: Mega-earthquake risk indicator Mega-earthquakes (with a magnitude greater than 8.5) mainly …
Nevadaite is one of the world’s rarest minerals. It is formed from the elements vanadium and copper under very specific a…
Ringwoodite is thought to form between 410km and 660km beneath the Earth's surface Targeting mysteries of deep Ear…
Karijini National Park, Australia. The ancient soils from Australia's Pilbara region (west of Karijini National Park) …
A Ho-Mg-Zn icosahedral quasicrystal formed as a pentagonal dodecahedron, the dual of the icosahedron. Unlike the similar …
Artist's reconstruction of Chicxulub crater soon after impact, 66 million years ago. DETLEV VAN RAVENSWAAY/SCIENCE S…
Earthquake activity in our region since 1973, showing small clusters of seismically active regions near Perth, Adelaide …