But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...

Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists.

New research is shaking up how we think about evolution, suggesting there's a level of predictability influenced by genes and ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

The entries emphasize chance’s prominent role in evolution. For instance ... weaving illuminating natural history into ...

L ike many of us, Earth bears old pockmarks. Our planet’s crust has a band of ancient craters that formed around 465 million ...

and the geologist who ten years ago was embarrassed by the shortness of the time allowed to him for the evolution of the earth's crust is now still more embarrassed by the superabundance with ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

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CO2 in large quantities can also be deleterious to the evolution of complex life —- particularly intelligent life like our own. We wouldn’t be here at all if our earth hadn’t developed a ...

How might Earth's geodynamic evolution have influenced the chemical composition of the convecting mantle over time? Researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...