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When did life begin on Earth? New evidence reveals a shocking story
Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...
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The History of Our Planet – Everything You Need to Know
What was Earth like billions of years ago? How did life emerge? And how did humanity come to dominate the planet? This video ...
Oceans on Earth may have all been green for eons before they turned blue
Earth's oceans may have been green for billions of years until the first photosynthetic organisms flooded our atmosphere with ...
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Earth’s oceans may have been green for billions of years
Some cyanobacteria have pigments that specialise in harvesting green light to power photosynthesis, which may be because they ...
The tiny planet-not-planet that could: Pluto was discovered 95 years ago today
Feb. 18 marks the 95th anniversary of the discovery of our outermost planet-not-planet. Here's what to know about the short ...
With just 5 years to go, the world is failing on a vital deal to halt biodiversity loss
All countries must accelerate efforts to avert the biodiversity crisis, and preserve Earth’s precious natural places for ...
A new theory explains how water first arrived on Earth
When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from ...
Evolving intelligent life took billions of years—but it may not have been as unlikely as many scientists predicted
A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare.
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...