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The first life forms on Earth might have come from Saudi Arabia, scientists find new proof
Scientists have unearthed living stromatolites — ancient geological structures made from algae — on…
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Earth is losing thousands of species each year, reveals research
Most dinosaurs famously disappeared 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period. …
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The asteroid NASA is about to strike poses no threat to Earth, but 60% of city-killer rocks fly under the radar
NASA's DART mission is about to practice deflecting an asteroid away from Earth. But NASA can't pro…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Japan is experiencing one of the earliest cherry blossom blooms in history, and scientists blame global warming
An Osaka Prefecture University researcher says the March 26 bloom in Kyoto, Japan, was the earliest…
Ashley Collman
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Earth's magnetic field first formed thanks to a magma ocean, research shows. That means more planets in the universe could have atmospheres than we thought.
Today, a swirling layer of liquid metal powers Earth's magnetic field. Billions of years ago, a mag…
Aylin Woodward
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Scientists found the world's oldest lizard fossil - and it suggests lizards lived among the earliest dinosaurs
"The specimen is 75 million years older than what we thought were the oldest fossil lizards in the …
Jeremy Berke
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NASA has led 7 asteroid-impact simulations. Only once did experts figure out how to stop the space rock from hitting Earth.
Since 2013, NASA has been leading exercises in which experts confront a fictitious Earth-bound aste…
Aylin Woodward
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These 3.7 billion-year-old fossils could have 'staggering' implications for the history of life on Earth
"Seeing stromatolites in such a setting would hardly be surprising - if the rocks were half a billi…
Dave Mosher
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Scientists Unravel One Of The Keys To Life On Earth - And It's Right Beneath Your Feet
Using a set of laws to to describe how grains evolve and "many many pages of physics," Bercovici an…
Leslie Baehr
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2 workers at a remote Antarctic research station describe life cut off from the world, from extreme cold to chips that never go stale
Staff at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station are about as far from civilization as you can be. Bu…
Marianne Guenot
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Facebook for Fossils: Half a billion years ago, life was connected via filament threads
Forget Facebook or Twitter which arrived on the scene a few years back. Scientists from the Univers…
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The moon has been drifting away from Earth for 4.5 billion years. A stunning animation shows how far it has gone.
Today, the moon is pulling away from Earth at about 3.8 centimeters (1.5 inches) per year. Scientis…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Humanity just used up Earth's entire 2016 'budget'
The GFN reports that we began overshooting Earth's capacity in the 1970s, and have more than double…
Rafi Letzter
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Humanity will use up Earth's entire 2016 'budget' by Monday
The GFN reports that we began overshooting Earth's capacity in the 1970s, and have more than double…
Rafi Letzter
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In a lucky coincidence, a spacecraft is scheduled to fly by Venus just weeks after researchers announced finding potential signs of life
The BepiColumbo spacecraft consists of two satellites launched together. It will fly by Venus twice…
Susie Neilson
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Scientists are piecing together clues about the first thing that ever lived on Earth
The 355 genes the researchers picked out suggest Luca survived without oxygen, pulling energy from …
Meghan Bartels
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Scientists found a billion-year-old fungus, and it could change our understanding of how life migrated to land
In a new study published in the journal Nature, researchers describe a fungus they discovered in a …
Aylin Woodward
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Your life is worth about $3 million in a rocket accident, according to the FAA. Here's how the agency got that number - and why auditors say it's a problem.
"The top priority is to streamline launch and reentry licensing requirements overall," the spokespe…
Dave Mosher
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The unbelievable life of the forgotten genius who turned Americans' space dreams into reality
Henson plays Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician at NASA working on the space program in i…
Meghan Bartels
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For $29,000 Tesla Roadster owners can give their cars new life
The 245-mile number was already pretty darn good, as electric cars go. When I test drove a Roadster…