earth science

The Hidden Chaos That Lurks in Ecosystems

[ad_1] By the early ’90s, ecologists had amassed sufficient time-series information units on species populations and sufficient computing energy to…

2 years ago

Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on Earth

[ad_1] “Each one of those kinds of pyrite is telling us something different about our planet, its origin, about life,…

2 years ago

Astronomers Radically Reimagine the Making of the Planets

[ad_1] Start at the center, with the sun. Our middle-aged star may be more placid than most, but it is…

2 years ago

A Vast Underground Water System Helps Drive Antarctica’s Glaciers

[ad_1] Lake Whillans is a strange body of water, starting with the fact that there is liquid to fill it…

3 years ago