The Earth Sciences contribute to answers on a wide range of societal ... including the origin and evolution of life. We strive to understand the processes that give rise to its immense riches of life ...

More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing land minerals and then depositing them in the ocean, according to ...

You’ve heard it before: we’re well into the sixth mass extinction of life on earth. Only this time, unlike the other five big ones, humans are overwhelmingly the killers responsible.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. For now, life thrives on our oxygen-rich planet. But Earth’s atmosphere won’t ...

There’s a reason why a rocket has to go so fast to escape Earth. It’s about gravity – something all of us experience every moment of every day. Gravity is the force that pulls you toward the ...

Improvements in human life expectancy throughout Europe have slowed significantly since 2011, with England experiencing the largest slowdown, according to a new study. The research, led by the ...

Evolution has shaped life on Earth for billions of years. Organisms adapt to their surroundings, developing traits that help them survive. From bacteria resisting antibiotics to viruses mutating to ...

Interior design is ripe for nostalgia ... the concepts of mass production away from World War II toward civilian life. Department stores with flashy showrooms made these furniture sets desirable ...

For now, life is flourishing on our oxygen-rich planet, but Earth wasn't always that way – and scientists have predicted that, in the future, the atmosphere will revert back to one that's rich in ...

Earth is some 4.5 billion years old. When it formed from colliding rocks around a dim, young sun, it was presumably lifeless, and geologists long thought that life didn’t emerge for a billion ...

The reference here seems to be to a paper, by myself, “he Constitution of the Interior of the Earth as Revealed by Earthquakes,” which was published in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological ...