New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier ...
Scientists studying Jurassic rocks in China found that cyclical changes in Earth's orbit affected not only the climate, but ...
Pangea may have vanished 200 million years ago, but it left a trail of clues in rocks, fossils, and even magnetic fields that ...
An urban geologist goes to downtown Seattle and finds a rangeof rocks rivaling any assembled by plate tectonics.
A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...
New research suggests that amino acids, the fundamental components of life, may have arrived on Earth carried by interstellar ...
Stable isotope analysis suggests that, before Roman aqueducts, residents of the city may have soaked in dirty water ...