Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.
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In 2023, data from the James Webb Space Telescope soured hopes that TRAPPIST-1 c had an atmosphere. That disappointment might have been premature.
It could make enough drinking water for a family of four.
Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all uni-plate planets, and may always have been. Here’s what’s known about why Earth, uniquely, has plate tectonics.
The intensely white coloration of the shrimp is a remarkable feat of bioengineering.
These nematodes complicate how we understand evolutionary lineages.
In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began.
In Kannauj, perfumers have been making monsoon-infused mitti attar for centuries.
Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance.
13.8 columnist Marcelo Gleiser reflects on his recent voyage to Earth’s last wild continent.
For many years, some cosmologists embraced the idea of an eternal, steady state universe. But science triumphed over philosophical prejudice.
Many impact craters on Earth have been erased thanks to wind, water, and plate tectonics. But scientists have clever ways to find them.
In “Dear Oliver,” neuroscientist Susan Barry describes how her 10-year correspondence with Oliver Sacks unleashed her inner author.
If there’s life lurking on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, could our instruments even detect it?
On Earth, microbial growth is common in lava tubes no matter the location and climate, whether it’s ice-volcano interactions in Iceland or hot, sand-floored lava tubes in Saudi Arabia.
The outer planets’ clouds hide the weirdness within.
Fire-retardant gels and slimes combine the best attributes of water and foam.
Although we still don’t know the question, we know that the answer to life, the Universe, and everything is 42. Here are 5 possibilities.
In the beginning, genes weren’t needed.
But make sure you bring the fossegrim the proper offering—or else.
Scientists may have detected the somewhat smelly chemical dimethyl sulfide on a planet 120 light-years from Earth.
Until the Apollo missions, we had no idea how the moon got here, just a series of educated guesses. They rewrote the story of the moon’s origins.
Meet the people paid to rouse the workers of industrial Britain.
The problem of the electroweak horizon haunts the standard model of cosmology and beckons us to ask how deep a rethink the model may need.
Seventy-five years after the anomaly’s discovery, scientists have finally figured out why sea levels are so much lower here.
Within the next few decades, we may well have hard evidence for the existence of alien life on worlds light-years distant from Earth.
Innovative thinking has done away with problems that long dogged the electric devices — and both scientists and environmentalists are excited about the possibilities.
Salt causes a dehydration-like state that encourages the conversion of the starch in the french fry to fructose.
Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.
At least one of Earth’s creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.