For decades, geologists labeled a billion-year stretch of Earth’s history—from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago—as the “Boring Billion.” They assumed not much occurred during the time: mountain building ...
New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier ...
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Earth’s oldest known material was born before Earth existed
Long before Earth formed, tiny mineral grains were already drifting through space, forged in the final breaths of dying stars ...
New Curtin University research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth's surface and paving the way for complex life to flourish. The key to unlocking ...
Ocean temperatures well below freezing in Earth’s deep-past glacial phases imply some very salty waters. At the height of a ...
To better understand the circadian clock in modern-day cyanobacteria, a research team has studied ancient timekeeping systems. They examined the oscillation of the clock proteins KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC ...
An international team of scientists has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem in the Cederberg mountains, revealing ...
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