A new meta-analysis of decades of research suggests that Earth's earliest proteins could fold into complex, functional shapes despite having access to only about half of today’s amino acids. Conducted ...
Thousands of earthquakes affecting Portugal’s São Jorge Island in the Azores in March 2022 were triggered by a vast sheet of ...
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission and mapped more than 47 million galaxies and quasars, and will continue observations into 2028 ...
Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” Last month, climate scientist and author Kate Marvel resigned from ...
On Wednesday, we celebrate another Earth Day. If you follow me, my subject matter routinely anchors to Earth-related matters, ...
New research suggests that the origins of life may be tied not only to deep-sea hydrothermal vents but also to environments ...
With 15,000 satellites crowding the sky and hundreds of thousands more planned, we may soon have a cataclysmic mess overhead.
UNL doctoral student Kierstin Blomberg was selected for the 2026 AMS Science Policy Colloquium, linking her atmospheric ...
Mark Clementz, a professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Geology and Geophysics, and colleagues have produced a ...
A recent study has revealed that light pollution has increased by 16% worldwide between 2014 and 2022. However, the changes are not uniform, with some regions experiencing significant brightening ...
Earth's population of 8.3 billion exceeds its ecological capacity by about 23 percent Humans use nature 80 percent faster than ecosystems can regenerate, needing 1.8 Earths Population likely to peak ...
Rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, lengthening how long an average day lasts. And the current rate of increase to a single average day—1.33 additional milliseconds per century—is ...