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Where did life on Earth begin? That sounds like a relatively straightforward question. Surely life on Earth began… well, on Earth, right? We know this planet had the right conditions for life to arise
On 27 December 2024, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Rio Hurtado in Chile discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 speeding past Earth. The detection could have been too lat
Mass extinctions and evolutionary leaps, from bacteria to Homo sapiens
It was 15 years ago this month, on 13 June 2010, that the world watched as a beleaguered traveller finally arrived home, after a long and perilous journey back to land. The trouble began in 2003, as A
Earth’s first crust looked surprisingly like today’s © ...
When you think of dinosaur fossils, you probably picture parched deserts or badlands scorched by the Sun. But one of the world’s richest dinosaur graveyards is buried in a less likely setting: a quiet
