Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also ...

You are probably more than familiar with the map ... main evidence we have for any past events, especially millions of years ago, is from studying rock formations and their contents. Fossils ...

To this end, Brazil is proposing that countries agree to finalise a 10-year roadmap for transitioning away from fossil fuels and ending deforestation. Even as the Brazilian environment minister set ...

Some researchers believe these crises happened multiple times in Neanderthal history. The new fossil evidence strengthens the idea that a key drop in variation took place around 110,000 years ago.

Steve Clark, Nic Gwatkin and Chantal Hinds of Optum discuss the benefits of evidence maps to view data in disease areas. If you showed Google Earth and Google Maps to your great-grandfather ...

Of course, fossils up a mountain are not evidence of a great flood ... a development from the continental drift theory first proposed in the 1920s. At the summit of Mount Everest, for example ...

"This is the first fossil evidence, and thus the oldest, of such eyes," says Haug. The findings support earlier work which had shown that lacewings were characterized by extraordinary diversity ...

Credit: NASA, edited Scientists may finally have a way to detect ancient life on Mars by studying microbial fossils preserved in sulfate minerals. Gypsum deposits on Mars may be hiding evidence of ...

This implies an even earlier origin, but direct fossil evidence of this has yet to be found. The new study, published in the journal Current Biology, addresses this issue by using advanced modeling ...

The absence of contemporary evidence such as the sightings of carcasses, modern fossil records, or credible video footage reinforces the consensus that Megalodon is indeed extinct. Movies, ...

Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science and Frozen Soil Engineering, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China Department of Earth and ...