Earth

A few days ago, diamonds made headlines when a "super-deep" diamond was found containing traces of a previously unseen mineral. That...

This past Wednesday, people from Oregon to British Columbia witnessed one of the biggest fireballs in years and heard what was likely...

About 65 million years ago, the Earth had a little encounter with a 7.5-mile-wide asteroid, now called the Chicxulub impactor....

Spiders often get a bad rap just because some species are venomous to the point of being deadly. If you're able to look past the tiny...

A mineral known as calcium silicate perovskite (CaSiO3) is an unusual mix of highly rare and yet extremely abundant: despite being...

This isn't good.A new study from NASA into the melting permafrost that covers much of the Arctic predicts that once the frost has...

The 2003 disaster movie The Core may be cheesy sci-fi, but there's nothing fictional about the South Atlantic Anomaly, a region...

Thanks to crowdfunding efforts, the world's largest ancestral record has been compiled — a massive family tree that contains...

There's a race going on at the moment in the science world. Various teams around the globe are all competing to be the first to...

The process of "fast magnetic reconnection" may not seem to interesting, but it plays a role in a lot of extremely bright and...

Ball lightning is one of the most obscure, perplexing mysteries in meteorology.The name is fairly self-explanatory: ball lighting...

Since 1880, the Earth's average temperature has risen about .85 degrees Celsius. That may not seem like a lot, but it's expected to...

If you've been living under a rock for the past few years, you might have failed to notice the fact that environmental disasters are...

Water bears, more formally known as tardigrades, are among the most indestructible animals on the planet. At just 0.02 inches (0.5...

For ten years now, Norway has invested money and resources in attempting to save the world in case of a catastrophic disaster, and...

Aliens are out there, and we're going to hear from them at some point this century.At least, that's the opinion of Dr. Michio Kaku, a...

It constantly surprises people that we know more about the surface of the Moon than we do about our ocean floor. So much down there...

Most of Earth really belongs to the plants, who fill up nearly every nook and cranny of nature and generate the oxygen that we fauna...

As much as we tend to panic over the idea of an asteroid crashing into the Earth, one possible explanation for life on Earth...

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