Researchers used bottled “lightning” to make ingredients for life
Scientists used spark discharge experiments to test whether lightning converted enough nitrogen to a usable form to support the origins of…
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Scientists used spark discharge experiments to test whether lightning converted enough nitrogen to a usable form to support the origins of…
Paleontologists described exceptionally well-preserved fossils of a complex marine ecosystem that developed within 1 million years of a…
Geologists examined CT images of diamonds from southern Africa to determine what happens to them underground.
Researchers found nautiloids outlived other shelly creatures in the late-Cretaceous extinction because they had slower metabolisms.
Paleontologists described a trilobite fossil preserved in 3D with its gut contents intact.
Scientists showed sulfuric acid formed during weathering of rocks causes mountains to consume less greenhouse gasses than they previously…
Lightning bolts can be deadly or destructive, but some researchers propose they might also have supplied essential elements for the first…
A researcher from Vanderbilt University inferred dinosaur intelligence from fossilized skulls. She used the skulls to estimate the number of…
Geologists discovered microbes trapped in 830-million-year-old salt minerals similar to those found on Mars.
The first cells of life on Earth had a lot to contend with. Conditions were harsh and unpredictable. The air was thick with volcanic gases.…