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By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have obtained the first historical record of plastic pollution in Greenland. The new data...

Mammoth DNA from Mexico reveals a divergent lineage

PALEONTOLOGY 07/09/2025

Long before the construction of the Felipe Ángeles International Airport, which lies northeast of Mexico City, the area was home to the former Lake Xaltocan and inhabited by a rich ecosystem of prehistoric animals. Eons later,...

100-million-year-old pearl fossil found in ancient seabed in Australian outback

PALEONTOLOGY 07/09/2025

Over 100 million years ago, long before the extinction of land-dwelling dinosaurs, there lived a group of massive clams called Inoceramus. With some species having shells up to 6.5 feet wide, they were "among the largest to...

VOLCANOES

Southwestern Iceland volcano erupts, prompting evacuation of town and geothermal spa

VOLCANOES 16/07/2025

Eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano creates ash plume visible 90 miles away

VOLCANOES 18/06/2025

An Alaskan volcano could help scientists understand why ‘stealthy’ volcanoes erupt without warning

VOLCANOES 10/06/2025

Hundreds evacuated as Guatemalan volcano erupts

VOLCANOES 06/06/2025

What made Mount Etna’s latest eruption so rare

VOLCANOES 04/06/2025

Ancient volcanic mystery: 120-million-year-old super-eruption traced back to its source

VOLCANOES 30/04/2025

ASTRONOMY

How to watch two meteor showers peak together in late July

ASTRONOMY 25/07/2025

Study finds link between Grand Canyon landslide and Meteor Crater impact

ASTRONOMY 16/07/2025

Research shows path toward protocells on Saturn’s moon Titan

ASTRONOMY 15/07/2025

The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York

ASTRONOMY 13/07/2025

Will asteroid 2024 YR4 hit the moon?

ASTRONOMY 27/06/2025

Cryovolcanism and resurfacing on Pluto’s largest moon, Charon

ASTRONOMY 27/06/2025

MARS

Mars has a solid core, resolving a longstanding planetary mystery, according to new study

MARS07/09/2025

Scientists have discovered that Mars has an interior structure similar to Earth's. Results from NASA's InSight mission suggest that the red planet has a solid inner core surrounded by a liquid outer core, potentially resolving a...

The hidden chemistry of Earth’s core is revealed by how it froze

EARTH 07/09/2025

A study by researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Leeds, and University College London has identified a new constraint on the chemistry of Earth's core, by showing how it was able to crystallize millions...

Mammoth DNA from Mexico reveals a divergent lineage

PALEONTOLOGY 07/09/2025

PALEONTOLOGY

Crocodile-relative ‘hypercarnivore’ from prehistoric Patagonia was over 3 meters long and weighed 250 kilos

PALEONTOLOGY 07/09/2025

A newly discovered species of a large, crocodile-relative predator has been described via a remarkably well-preserved fossil from Argentina, according to a study published in PLOS One by Fernando Novas from Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales...