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New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier ...

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Explains how Earths day length could extend to 25 hours over hundreds of millions of years due to lunar tides, and how this ...

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Speaking a day after the US captured Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro, Trump told The Atlantic: ‘We do need Greenland, ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction. Ancient melt inclusions and advanced simulations point to continents ...