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Life’s Missing Puzzle Piece Found: Essential Compound Synthesized in Early Earth Conditions

Imagine a time 4 billion years ago, when Earth was a young planet teeming with volcanic activity and shrouded in a primordial atmosphere. Scientists have...

Geothermal Energy Research Sheds Light on Induced Earthquakes

In the pursuit of a carbon-free economy, the focus on geothermal energy extraction is intensifying. Energy producers worldwide are eagerly seeking safer methods to tap...

Earth’s Day Lengthening Halted for Over a Billion Years, Scientists Discover

A team of astrophysicists from the University of Toronto has made a fascinating discovery regarding the lengthening of Earth's day. They have found that for...

Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in

Experts have voted to expand the universe. Or, at the very least, the official terminology that can be used to describe the vanishingly small...

Study finds effect of Earth’s orbit on ancient microorganisms

Curtin University researchers studying molecular fossils or "biomarkers" from deep beneath the Chicxulub impact crater discovered evidence of how microorganisms changed in response to...

Earth’s composition was changed by collisional erosion

A team of Université Clermont Auvergne researchers, in collaboration with a colleague from Universität Bayreuth, discovered evidence that suggests the Earth's composition changed over...

Water in asteroid dust offers clues to life on Earth

Specks of dust recovered by a Japanese space probe from an asteroid 300 million kilometres from Earth have revealed an unexpected component: a drop...

Study unearths ancient reef structures high and dry on the Nullarbor Plain

Using advanced satellite imagery, Curtin University researchers and international collaborators discovered an ancient reef-like landform "hidden" in plain sight on the Nullarbor Plain that...

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