In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

With an underlying universal theme of convection, a new textbook introduces upper-level geology, geophysics, physics, and engineering students to the geophysics behind the Earth System.

What drives us to send probes throughout the solar system and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

Scientists have developed a new equation to investigate the possibility of past life on Venus, fueling our curiosity about ...

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

Ancient microbes illustrate a particular kind of respiration in which carbon dioxide and hydrogen are combined to form acetic ...

The declaration of the World Day for Glaciers, on March 21, is a global call to action as protecting glaciers is protecting ...

Researchers present the Venus Life Equation, a novel formula to approximate the possibility of life on Venus, shedding light ...

Land is commonly defined as the solid, dry surface of Earth. It can also refer to the collective natural resources that the ...

Ancient eruptions may have triggered conditions for oxygen ‘whiffs’ in the atmosphere In a nutshell Massive volcanic events known as Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) likely released carbon dioxide, ...

An electron microscopy images of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria that featured on the covers of the 2022 edition of The ...