Groundwater hides dense communities of rock-bound microbes that shape water quality and help store carbon below ground.
For years, the oldest widely accepted cave art came from Spain, where mineral crusts dated paintings to more than 64,000 years. That work also relied on uranium decay in crusts, so it offered a ...
Earth's surface is covered by more than a dozen tectonic plates, and in subduction zones around the world—including the ...
A chunk of rock that blasted off Mars and crash-landed on Earth is turning out to be one of the richest archives of ancient Martian water ever found. New scans of the famous “Black Beauty” meteorite ...
Earth froze over 717 million years ago. Ice crept down from the poles to the equator, and the dark subglacial seas suffocated ...
A rough diamond unearthed in Botswana in the final quarter of 2025 has drawn sustained attention from geoscientists and ...
The real threat to a secure and sustainable supply of rare earths is not that they are scarce, but that so much is wasted.