Earth may have been a water world for much of its history, a new proposal contends. Just like in the Kevin Costner movie, the continents would have been mostly submerged below sea level. Previous proposals have suggested that Earth’s land area has remained comparatively unchanged throughout much of geologic time.
One climate doomsday scenario can be downgraded, new research suggests.
Future moon colonies could be totally tubular.
Global emissions of carbon dioxide won’t increase much in 2016 despite overall economic growth, newly released bookkeeping suggests. The result marks a three-year-long plateau in the amount of CO2 released by human activities, scientists from the Global Carbon Project report November 14 in Earth System Science Data.
Earth’s innards are cooling off surprisingly fast.
In a hotel ballroom in Seoul, South Korea, early in 2016, a centuries-old strategy game offered a glimpse into the fantastic future of computing.
A new element has been found in Mars’ chemical arsenal.
The first post-apocalypse tenants of ground zero of the dinosaur extinction didn’t waste much time moving in.
The decades-long dwindling of glaciers is “categorical evidence of climate change,” a new study affirms
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Another “impossible” crystal has been found locked inside a Russian meteorite.