About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest bacteria cannot survive. However, there are places where life thrives ...

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There's a lot more to Earth than meets the eye. Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together by intense forces of gravity.

Down-to-earth Louise is already a keen member of the ... “People keep telling me that Granny is the Queen.” But the life of Lady Louise Mountbatten- Windsor has been normal ever since the ...

Phosphorus, the vastly underappreciated 15 th element on the periodic table, is essential to all life as we know it ... never found as a free element on Earth, but instead is always bound up ...

From the flamboyant blossoms and birds of rainforests to the living rainbows of coral reefs, Earth’s surface is teeming with life. But some of its most diverse and fascinating biomes are ...

Potential patches of Earth's ancient crust, sometimes called "sunken worlds," may have just been discovered deep within the mantle, thanks to a new way of mapping the inside of our planet.

This works with any area of science, or indeed human life. In a way, the authoritarian excesses of the Earth-based regime known as the Mandate in my novel Alien Clay are as much a thought ...

A space physics expert has sounded the alarm over the dangers of space junk orbiting Earth at speeds of 18,000mph, warning that it could pose a serious threat to life on our planet. Dr Ian ...

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life. "We're trying to figure out how much mass is reaching Venus from Earth, and how many cells can that mass carry," Emma Guinan, first author of a ...

With tools like AlphaFold 2 generating vast amounts of structural data, this approach could provide new insights into the deep history of life on Earth. There are 210 thousand experimentally ...