By analyzing seismic waves from earthquakes from the 1960s, researchers from Peking University deduced that the Earth's inner ...
What water, chemistry and temperature cycles fostered the chemical reactions that allowed life to emerge on our planet? Because life arose in the largely unknown surface conditions of Earth’s early ...
Discover the connection between volcanic events and the rise of Earth's oxygen levels that enabled complex life to thrive.
A new source of nitrogen has been discovered. Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in southwestern Germany ...
By exposing organic molecules to repeated wet-dry cycles, researchers observed ... the molecular complexity needed for life to emerge. To simulate early Earth, the team subjected chemical mixtures ...
Earth's northern hemisphere warms up literally for the astronomical start to spring. Here's what to know about the season.
Research shows how Earth's climate suddenly warmed 10°C, transforming ecosystems and causing the worst mass extinction in history.
Earth’s earliest forms of life ... Such changes could have infused nutrient cycles and provided emerging life with the boost it needed to evolve into more complex forms.
A team of researchers say their latest attempts to understand how molecules chemically reacted to form the basic building blocks of life on Earth are promising. There has long been debate about the ...