Biosphere 2 isn’t just the site of a famous human experiment. Today, scientists there work to understand how life emerges in ...

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With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate ...

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Rivers in northern Sweden do not always become wider or richer in species further downstream. Natural barriers shape the flow ...

The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.

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The article examines how machine learning is revolutionizing igneous petrology and volcanology by automating tasks, enhancing ...

Aerosols may conjure deodorant sprays, but in this context, they refer to a broad class of airborne particles that are ...

A groundbreaking study published today in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) journal Earth System Dynamics provides a critical and previously ...