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Carbon Dating: A Precise History
Scientists have been using the process of carbon dating for years to measure the age of things from…
The Mysterious Origins of Water
It may strike you as surprising, but water wasn’t always something that the Earth just had plenty of;…
Glass beads in lunar soil reveal ancient asteroid bombardments on the Moon and Earth
NASA / JSC Alexander Nemchin, Curtin University and Katarina Miljkovic, Curtin University In 2020, China’s Chang’e 5 mission…
This Costa Rican Lake May Reveal How Mars Could Have Hosted Life
Near the center of Costa Rica is its famous volcano called Volcán Poás, whose peaks house two crater…
Iron May Play a Major Role In the Evolution of Complex Life on Earth
In the billions of years since simple unicellular life sprang forth from the depths of Earth’s oceans, life…
The First Oxygen-Producing Bacteria May Have Been Kickstarted by Ancient Volcanoes
Earlier, we wrote about how we can see Earth’s history through the layers of rock we find across…