New simulations show carbon enabled Earth’s inner core to solidify under realistic cooling, solving the nucleation paradox.

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New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior of our planet locked in its defining features just 100 million years after ...

Beneath the African continent, powerful plumes of molten rock are slowly reshaping the land from below. Scientists studying ...

In 2005, I was navigating winding roads through the Drakensberg Mountains, in Lesotho, Southern Africa. Towering cliff-like features known as escarpments interrupt the landscape, rising up by a ...

Earth’s immense web of life fill three broad domains—archaea, bacteria, and eukarya. Scientists from Monash University recently discovered hydrogen-producing enzymes in archaea, which were thought to ...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising geological phenomenon beneath the North Sea that could challenge long-standing ...

Bacteria made of mirror molecules could evade the immune system and outcompete native species, but strategies put in place ...