“There’s more than a billion years that’s gone,” said Barra Peak, co-author of a 2021 study on this puzzling gap in Earth’s ...
Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...
The Great Unconformity is a major gap in Earth's geologic record. The missing layer between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks ...
Earth-like planets have a thin crust, a large mantle (which contains a lot of molten magma), and a core. Inside these ...
The DOT says $1,000 worth of salt covers 70 miles of roadway, but as brine it treats 175 miles.
New research confirms using salt brine can effectively clear roads while using less salt. Salt brine is a mixture of salt and ...
About 620 miles off the coast of Portugal, the rolling waves of the North Atlantic hide a mystery underneath that goes back ...
Researchers recently discovered a second Hemiscorpius species in the Erbil Governorate of northern Iraq. It is the second ...
Hike north on the Appalachian Trail and the scenery slowly transforms. Rugged, steep ridgelines in Tennessee and Virginia soften into the broad summits and smooth peaks of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is sharing results from a university-led research project that reinforces the effectiveness of salt brine in winter highway maintenance compared to ...
A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...
Scientists discovered a new dinosaur species in the Sahara, Spinosaurus mirabilis, that likely hunted fish in shallow rivers.