Little Foot is a near-complete Australopithecus skeleton — the most complete ever discovered — from South Africa. Researchers ...

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While scientists have long known that iron oxide minerals help lock away enormous amounts of carbon—sequestering it from the ...

Dhruv Shenai discusses the vital role of critical minerals research in the transition to a more sustainable world ...

The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

An ultra-hot rocky exoplanet may be wrapped in a dense atmosphere, defying expectations about what small planets can sustain.