Scientists at Penn State have developed an updated model for determining whether discovered planets fall…
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June Arctic snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere dropped by almost 18% per decade over…
Over a century after the Romans gave up control of what’s today Geneva, Switzerland, in…
Xenon, the second heaviest of the chemically inert noble gases, seems to have vanished from…
Scientists from the Carnegie Institution for Science are focusing on an old type of meteorite…
A new study found that dissolution or creation of huge gypsum deposits changed the sulfate…
While the use of lead gasoline has severally dwindled since the 1970s, the effects on…
In an effort to better understand what the future of climate change may look like,…
Researchers have discovered that the proliferation of oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere was linked to…
The greatest mass extinction pulse was the Permian-Triassic extinction event, and it happened about 250…
Rediscovered aerial photos of Greenland from the 1930s have allowed scientists to construct the history…
A new study from environmental scientists suggests that the mercury concentration in the Arctic Ocean…
An amateur paleontologist found a mysterious fossilized specimen that may have once lived near the…
While analyzing samples of submarine volcanic glass near subduction zones, scientists found something unexpected. They…
According to University of British Columbia (UBC) research published this week in Nature Geoscience, Hawaii’s…