The oldest clear evidence for Earth’s magnetic field suggests that it was formed within the first billion years of Earth’s existence. The new discovery brings us closer to answering the …
The Earth is constantly bombarded by high-energy charged particles called cosmic rays. We are normally shielded from such attacks by Earth’s magnetic bubble, or magnetosphere. But what happens when this …
New research reveals more clues about an extreme event that occurred on Earth 41,000 years ago, when the Earth’s magnetic field temporarily weakened, causing large amounts of cosmic rays to …
Published on April 18, 2024 Researchers have shown that the Amazon butterfly is a hybrid species, resulting from the breeding of two other species nearly 200,000 years ago. Hybridization drove …
More than three years after a fire razed PASSAIC to the ground in January 2021, Atlantic Coast Recycling is officially back in business. The $20 million, 128,000-square-foot “state-of-the-art” recycling center …
CNN — More than two decades after a mother discovered a human jawbone in her son’s rock collection, genetic genealogists have unraveled the find and identified the partial remains of …
Fifty years ago, a group of Washington activists launched a movement that revolutionized the way Western food is grown, eaten and composted. The organization, which focused on organic farming and …
Figuring out what happened in the solar system thousands or hundreds of millions of years ago is challenging. Millions of objects of vastly different masses interacted for billions of years, …
Image source: CC0 Public Domain Earth’s magnetic field protects us from dangerous radiation from space, but it’s not as permanent as we think. Scientists at the European Geosciences Union conference …
More than 240 years ago, the famous mathematician Euler raised a question: If each of the six legions has six officers with six different ranks, can they be arranged in …