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A recent study investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions. Researchers pushed these conditions to the limits, ...

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery ...

I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years, I noticed that students were always interested in the history of ...

TIMES is the title of the international team's project, which is an acronym for "Time Integrated Matrix for Earth Sciences." ...

For her excellent efforts in education, the Yankton Middle School (YMS) science instructor has been honored as the state’s ...

Scientists say this extinction is likely to happen sooner due to the rate at which we are increasing the amount of carbon on Earth. A similar situation is said to have led to the extinction of ...

The Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EEAS ... Before starting his Ph.D. in atmospheric science at UMass Lowell, Tyler Harrington interned at the Federal Aviation ...

From the flamboyant blossoms and birds of rainforests to the living rainbows of coral reefs, Earth’s surface is ... in a study recently published in Science Advances. Microbes have adapted ...

PhD-level historical inquiry, they’re not yet up to the task,” said Maria del Rio-Chanona, one of the paper’s co-authors and an associate professor of computer science at University College ...