Scientists turn carbon dioxide into renewable methane using microbes
As wind turbines spin and solar panels soak up sunlight, one major problem continues to shadow the clean…
Ancient Britons likely transported Stonehenge’s Altar Stone 700 kilometers from Scotland
Stonehenge has always invited big questions, but one of its most stubborn mysteries sits low to the ground.…
Fossil discovery solves 500-million-year-old mystery about the dawn of animal life
Tiny honeycomb-like colonies from southern China have opened a long-running gap in the story of animal life. For…
Early galaxy collisions may explain why giant galaxies died young
A new study suggests that some of the Universe’s earliest giant galaxies may have lived dramatic lives. They…
Sending short messages back in time may not break the laws of physics
A message from the future sounds like science fiction, until someone starts asking how many bits it could…
Ancient oceans started to suffocate 8 million years before the Triassic mass extinction
The end-Triassic extinction is often overshadowed by the disaster that killed the dinosaurs, but on its own it…
500-million-year-old fossil rewrites a missing chapter of Earth’s history
A remarkable fossil hidden in a museum collection for decades is helping scientists rethink one of the biggest…
Triassic fossil reveals a beaked, bipedal reptile that looked like an ostrich dinosaur
The Late Triassic was full of animals that look almost familiar, right up until you place them on…
A massive rift is splitting Africa apart forming Earth’s sixth ocean
The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and…
Scientists discover why deadly lung scarring from IPF refuses to heal
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis slowly turns the lungs stiff and scarred, but researchers may have found why the damage…
Scientists solve the 30-year mystery of ‘clockwork’ earthquakes
Deep beneath the Pacific, one undersea fault has produced nearly identical magnitude 6 earthquakes every few years for…
Life depended on a rare metal for survival – billions of years ago
Earth’s earliest microbes may have built vital chemistry around molybdenum, a metal thought too scarce to matter in…