Mount Toba eruption doesn’t seem like it could nearly kill our species
And this was half-bad, half-good news for early humans living in Africa. Mild disaster “Sulfate aerosols…
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Tiny crystals from a 17th-century shipwreck hold secrets of a global supply chain at the dawn of capitalism
Few episodes occupy a darker place in maritime history than the wreck of the Batavia. Wrecked…
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Tiny fossils found in 1.7 billion-year-old mud yield clues to the evolution of complex life
Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores…
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Oil, petrol, gasoline: a chemical engineer explains how crude turns into fuel
As the US–Israel war on Iran escalates, so too does the global oil crisis. The effective…
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Exceptionally low river levels raise fears over water supplies
6 hours ago Malcolm Prior, Georgina Rannard, Jenny Kumah BBC Rural Affairs and Climate and Science…
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Fossil teeth show extinct giant kangaroos spent their lives close to home – and perished when the climate changed
Large kangaroos today roam long distances across the outback, often surviving droughts by moving in mobs…
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1 trillion species, 3 billion years: how we used AI to trace the evolution of bacteria on Earth
There are roughly a trillion species of microorganisms on Earth – the vast majority of which…
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Moon rocks reveal hidden lunar history
That mission, and the 2020 Chang’e-5 robotic mission before it, are the first to return lunar…
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How we treat catchment water to make it safe to drink
Most of us are fortunate that, when we turn on the tap, clean, safe and high-quality…
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One less thing to worry about in 2025: Yellowstone probably won’t go boom
Underneath Yellowstone: Two large lobs of hot material from the mantle (in yellow) melt rock closer…
