Few spiders elicit as much reaction from humans as the famous and feared tarantula. These giant,…
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Earth nearly lost all its oxygen 2.3 billion years ago
A new study pushes the permanent rise of oxygen in the atmosphere to 100 million years…
NASA Now Has Direct Evidence Humans Cause Global Warming
Now, NASA has calculated individual impacts on climate change and can definitively share humans’ role in…
Scientists built a perfectly self-replicating synthetic cell
Scientists have crafted a single-celled synthetic organism that divides and multiplies just like the real thing.…
Direct Observations by NASA Confirm that Humans are Throwing Earth’s Energy Budget off Balance
Earth is on a budget – an energy budget. Our planet is constantly trying to balance…
There Appears to Be a Huge Chunk of an Ancient Planet Buried Inside Earth
“I think it’s completely viable until someone tells me it’s not.” Read more at Futurism…
Microbes Unknown to Science Discovered on The International Space Station
The menagerie of bacterial and fungal species living among us is ever growing – and this…
The world’s oldest crater from a meteorite isn’t an impact crater after all
Several years after scientists discovered what was considered the oldest crater a meteorite made on the…
Scientists Create Self-Replicating Chemicals to Explain the Origins of Life
An enduring question about how we got here is how a vat of primordial chemicals might…
Solar panels in the Sahara could damage global climate
Covering the Sahara desert in solar panels could generate plenty of clean energy, but the heat…
New research suggests a polar flip could be catastrophic
Earth’s magnetic poles are constantly on the move, but they haven’t drifted far enough to actually…
Earth’s magnetic field flipped 42,000 years ago, creating a climate ‘disaster’
See you on the flip side. Read more at livescience.com…
CO2 Dip May Have Helped Dinosaurs Walk From South America To Greenland – Eurasia Review
A new paper refines estimates of when herbivorous dinosaurs must have traversed North America on a…
Who needs a supercomputer? Your desktop PC and a GPU might be enough to solve some of the largest problems | ZDNet
A new method significantly reduces the amount of memory needed for brain simulations, freeing some AI…
How has Earth stayed habitable for so long? Scientists have 2 theories
To understand how we came to exist on planet Earth, we’ll need to know how Earth…
A critical animal for Earth’s survival has gone missing — study
New research shows that global scientific records of bee species has declined by 25 percent since…
Scientists Find 20 Million-Year-Old Giant Predatory Nightmare Worm
Trace fossils reveal an “life and death struggle between predator and prey” that played in what…
1st preserved dinosaur butthole is ‘perfect’ and ‘unique,’ paleontologist says
This was a multipurpose glory hole. Read more at livescience.com…
The planet is dying faster than we thought
A triple-threat of climate change, biodiversity loss and overpopulation is bearing down on Earth. Read more…
Birds might be conscious and self-aware like humans, groundbreaking study finds
So, calling someone a ‘bird brain’ is now a compliment? Read more at Mashable SEA…