Why deep oceans gave life to the first big, complex organisms
Why did the first big, complex organisms spring to life in deep, dark oceans where food was scarce? A new...
Uranium price: best performer of 2018 set for more gains
The rally in uranium prices, which began in April this year amid production cutbacks in Kazakhstan and Canada, is set...
Alaska earthquakes offer new insight into improving hazard assessment
Earthquake hazard assessment often overlooks intra-slab earthquakes. EarthScope Transportable Array data for the 2016 Iniskin and Nov. 30, 2018 Anchorage...
Humans may be reversing the climate clock, by 50 million years
Our future on Earth may also be our past. Researchers show that humans are reversing a long-term cooling trend tracing...
Life in Deep Earth totals 15 to 23 billion tons of carbon — hundreds of times more than humans
Barely living 'zombie' bacteria and other forms of life constitute an immense amount of carbon deep within Earth's subsurface --...
Why Tehran is sinking dangerously
Researchers have used data from radar satellites to measure the subsidence of the Earth's surface in the Tehran region in...
A microbe's membrane helps it survive extreme environments
Within harsh environments like hot springs, volcanic craters and deep-sea hydrothermal vents -- uninhabitable by most life forms -- microscopic...
Drill results from Spanish Mountain cut more good grades in pit area
BRITISH COLUMBIA – The assay results are in from Spanish Mountain Gold’s drilling program for the gold project of the...
To image leaky atmosphere, NASA rocket team heads north
Earth's atmosphere is leaking, but how does oxygen get the energy to escape to space? NASA's VISIONS-2 rocket will soon...
Brilliant iron molecule could provide cheaper solar energy
For the first time, researchers have succeeded in creating an iron molecule that can function both as a photocatalyst to...