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Ozone may be heating the planet more than we realize

Ozone may be weakening one of the Earth's most important cooling mechanisms, making it a more significant greenhouse gas than previously thought, research has...

A billion-year history of Earth’s interior shows it’s more mobile than we thought

Deep in the Earth beneath us lie two blobs the size of continents. One is under Africa, the other under the Pacific Ocean. The blobs...

Research team proves Mercury has magnetic storms

An international team of scientists has proved that Mercury, our solar system's smallest planet, has geomagnetic storms similar to those on Earth. The research by...

How carbonates behave in the Earth’s interior

Carbonates are the most important carbon reservoirs on the planet. But what role do they play in the Earth’s interior? How do they react...

Traces of life in the Earth’s deep mantle

The rapid development of fauna 540 million years ago has permanently changed the Earth — deep into its lower mantle. A team led by...

Studying impact craters to uncover the secrets of the solar system

While for humans the constants might be death and taxes, for planets the constants are gravity and collisions. Brandon Johnson studies the latter, using information...