What would volcanoes look like on metallic planets
What would a volcano - and its lava flows - look like on a planetary body made primarily of metal?
A pilot study from North...
Dinosaurs took 15 million years to get from South America to Greenland
A snail could have crawled its way faster.
10,000 kilometers (6,213 miles) over 15 million years—that’s how long it took the first herbivorous dinosaurs to...
Scientists dig deep to reveal Earth’s hidden layer
It's an idea worthy of a Jules Verne novel; a mysterious layer at the centre of our planet.
Now researchers from The Australian National University...
Scientists solve a key climate change mystery
Scientists have resolved a key climate change mystery, showing that the annual global temperature today is the warmest of the past 10,000 years, according...
Scientists find surprising history of world’s largest lizard
The unusual breeding history of the Earth's largest living lizard - the Komodo dragon - has been laid bare in a new study from...
Scientists close the case of what killed the dinosaurs
Researchers believe they have closed the case of what killed the dinosaurs.
They definitively links dinosaur extinction with an asteroid that slammed into Earth 66...
How did dogs get to the Americas?
The history of dogs has been intertwined, since ancient times, with that of the humans who domesticated them.
But how far back does that history...
Ancient relic points to a turning point in Earth’s history 42,000 years ago
Just like in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the answer was 42.
The temporary breakdown of Earth’s magnetic field 42,000 years ago sparked major...
Like it or not, taxes and bureaucracy are cornerstones of democracy, shows history
The media has been rife with stories about democracy in decline: the recent coup in Myanmar, the ascent of strongman Narendra Modi in India,...
Scientists explain the cataclysm that killed the dinosaurs
It was tens of miles wide and forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago.
The Chicxulub impactor, as it’s...