The curious minds at What If explain Earth’s evolution in just ten thrilling minutes, covering dramatic changes in life, ...

Earth's magnetic field is generated by the churn of its liquid nickel-iron outer core, but it is not a constant feature.

Deep inside Earth, two massive hot rock structures have been quietly shaping the planet’s magnetic field for millions of ...

Exploring Earth's deep interior is a far bigger challenge than exploring the solar system. While we have traveled 25 billion ...

Beginning two billion years of Earth’s history, the amount of oxygen was not sufficient, but the atmosphere was rich in ...

SAR11 bacteria dominate the world’s oceans by being incredibly efficient, shedding genes to survive in nutrient-poor waters.

Hidden mega-structures deep inside Earth may have been quietly steering our planet’s magnetic field—and rewriting what we ...

For more than a quarter billion years, coral reefs did far more than brighten shallow seas. Long before humans appeared, ...

In a study published in Nature Geoscience, r esearch led by the University of Liverpool has identified magnetic evidence that ...

Exploring Earth's deep interior is a far bigger challenge than exploring the solar system. While we have travelled 25 billion ...

Something unusual keeps turning up in marine sediments. These are large crystals of magnetite, formed by biology rather than geology, and preserved fo.

Named Foskeia, from Greek "fos" for light and "skei" from boskein meaning to forage, the species honours the ancient ...