A research team led by Rutgers University’s Professor Dennis Kent has documented a gradual shift in Earth’s orbit that repeats regularly every 405,000...
An international team of geologists from Poland and the UK has found evidence that the Late Devonian mass extinction, which occurred approximately 370...
The intensity of Earth’s magnetic field has been dropping for the last two centuries, at a rate that some researchers suspect may cause the field to...
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was delivered to space Wednesday, April 18, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that lifted off from...
A team of scientists from Australia and China has found that many of the viruses infecting us today have ancient evolutionary histories that date back...
The high-energy impact about 100 million years after our Solar System formed, resulted in the two colliding planetary objects completely merging to create...
An international team of scientists has developed a numerical 3D model for the melting of single snowflakes. A better understanding of how snow melts can...
Pioneering new research from the University of Exeter, UK, has revealed when the 11-year solar cycle is in its ‘weaker’ phase, there are warm spells...
An international research team led by a Princeton University scientist has found that the rise in oxygen that occurred about 2.3 billion years ago (Paleoproterozoic...
An international team of scientists from the United States and Canada has discovered the first direct evidence that aqueous pockets may exist as far as...
Dr. Tanai Cardona, a researcher with Imperial College London, UK, studied molecular machines responsible for oxygenic photosynthesis and found the process...
According to a new study to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the first plants to colonize the Earth originated around...
Astronomers using the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope on Mauna Loa in Hawaii have captured images of the Tesla Roadster...
Dr. Albert Erives, a biologist at the University of Iowa, has identified a virus family whose set of genes is similar to that of eukaryotes, an organism...
A team of researchers from Lancaster University and the Universities of Edinburgh and Leeds, UK, forecasts a 15% drop in the average number of lightning...
Viruses fall back to Earth via dust storms and precipitation, according to new research published in the International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal.
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Non-tailed double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) viruses infect bacteria and dominate water samples from the world’s oceans. They have long escaped analysis because...
