About 700 million years ago, massive glaciers crept across the Earth’s surface toward an ice-covered sea, scraping the ground ...

The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

Discover the connection between volcanic events and the rise of Earth's oxygen levels that enabled complex life to thrive.

By the end of the Neoproterozoic, as Earth’s icy cover began to thaw, major chemistry shifts were taking place in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans. “The end of these glaciations is marked by ...

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Iron can form compounds with helium at pressures as low as 5GPa – about 50,000 atmospheres – researchers in Japan report.

The research, conducted by scientists at Stanford University, demonstrates that when water droplets collide and form spray, ...

By the end of the Neoproterozoic, as Earth’s icy cover began to thaw, major chemistry shifts were taking place in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans. “The end of these glaciations is marked by ...

National Experimental Chemistry Teaching Center (Hebei Normal University), Hebei Key Laboratory of Inorganic Nano-materials, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hebei Normal University, ...

Minerals swept up on land by this “glacial broom” altered marine chemistry and infused oceans with nutrients that they say may have shaped how complex life evolved. This ancient period of deep freeze, ...