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Earth observation, climate, geology, oceans, ecosystems and the living world.
In 1960, anthropologist Louis Leakey sent a 26-year-old English secretary named Jane…
The Earth's inner core grows by roughly a millimetre a year as molten iron freezes onto…
Gold, platinum and most of Earth's heavy metals sank into the core as the young planet…
Dogs do not see the world in black and white
A park ranger lowered himself into an Australian canyon expecting to document an…
Everything we know about the Earth's core comes from earthquakes
In 2023, seismologists at the Australian National University, reading the echoes of…
Researchers froze the simplest amino acid to nearly minus 260°C and bombarded it with…
A queen honeybee can live for several years, while worker bees may live for only six…
Earth’s inner core is an iron-rich ball as hot as the surface of the Sun, kept solid…
