Scientists match Earth's ice age cycles with orbital shifts
Beginning around 2.5 million years ago, Earth entered an era marked by successive ice ages and interglacial periods, emerging ...
Good news! An asteroid doomsday is getting less likely
Don’t blame astronomers for the odds that an asteroid will strike Earth in 2032. The likelihood has gone from 3.1 per cent to ...
NASA's PUNCH mission set to unravel mysteries of solar wind and storms
The mission, called PUNCH – which stands for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere – is a collection of four suitcase-sized satellites that will map the Sun's outer atmosphere and where it ...
A Supernova May Have Sparked Evolution In Africa, Scientists Say
About 2.5 million years ago, the viruses infecting fish in Lake Tanganyika underwent a mysterious explosion in diversity. It ...
Glaciers ‘bulldozed’ snowball Earth and changed ocean chemistry, paving the way for complex life, scientists say
Glaciers once inched toward the sea, gouging rocks. When the ice masses melted, they infused oceans with nutrients that may ...
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Scientists build robot to track plant-fungal trade networks, revealing nature’s underground supply chains
By tracking half a million fungal highways and the traffic flows within them, researchers describe how plants and symbiotic ...
Scientists say they’ve discovered why Mars is red
A study suggests Mars takes its red hue from a type of mineral that forms in cool water, which could reveal insights about ...
Solar system's journey through Orion complex 14 million years ago may have altered Earth's climate
An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion ...
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Why was January Earth’s hottest on record?
To learn more, The Allegheny Front’s Kara Holsopple spoke with Jeff Masters, Ph.D., a meteorologist who wrote about it for ...