Imagine Earth installing a patch that makes life both stronger and stranger. That’s what happened 300 million years ago, when atmospheric oxygen created new evolutionary metas and super-sized ...

Imagine this. You’re in high school, sitting in your science class, and your teacher drops the ultimate "What did you do this weekend?" flex. “Oh, no big deal,” he says. “Just uncovered some ...

Through the analyses of gases and fluids preserved within salt crystals, the team extended the direct record of Earth’s ...

Around 56 million years ago, Earth suddenly got much hotter. Over about 5,000 years, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere drastically increased and global temperatures shot up by some 6°C. As we ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Earth's seasons look very different at locations not far from each other, 20 years' worth of satellite data reveals. Earth's seasonal cycles can vary dramatically across short distances, even at the ...

Vera Korasidis receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Julian Rogger receives funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation. University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...

Growth investor Prysm Capital has led a $50 million investment in Sokin that values the payments company at $300 million, betting on the growing importance of cross-border payments to support global ...

Tristan Salles receives funding from Australian Research Council. Laurent Husson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...

New research suggests that for about a billion years, Earth’s rotation stayed stable at 19-hour days due to a balance between ...