The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focused on planets in the ...

Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

NASA's GOLD mission found unexpected, and unexplainable, C-shapes and X-shaped formations in part of Earth's atmosphere ...

Adapted from USGS by BernardM, Wikimedia Commons, DP A tectonic plate is a massive slab of Earth’s outer shell, known as the lithosphere. These plates float on the asthenosphere, a softer ...

Researchers have been challenging the textbook picture of Earth’s structure, which says that what happens in the planet’s dense metallic core stays there. An analysis of rocks from Hawaii’s ...

Hidden in every tenth of a degree of extra warmth are hair-trigger switches built into Earth systems that are critical for ...

that can assist in uncovering hidden parts of the Earth's geological structure. Read also: China eases trade limits, rare earth restrictions linger Hrvoje Tkalčić from the Australian National ...

By the time these vibrations pass through Earth's core though, they're incredibly subtle. So Tkalčić and fellow seismologist Abhay Pandey went searching for these seismic waves using sensitive ...

The molecule could be a relic of a time when life based on mirror-image molecules existed on Earth. Many chemicals ... He noticed that the structure was symmetrical around a central axis, and ...

He studied geology in college and although he wound up taking a different professional path, he never lost interest in the natural processes that change Earth’s structure. "The whole Mount St ...

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