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Professor Sudipta Sengupta, renowned mountaineer and geologist and one of India's first women to break into such fields, recalls her historic expeditions to the Himalayas and Antarctica.

The fossil is the oldest of its kind and confirms theories of how the creatures evolved.

WASHINGTON – Today, President Biden announces his intent to appoint the following individuals to serve in key roles on the President’s Council on Sports,

By Jorge A. Bañales Washington, Mar 22 (EFE).- The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest telescope ever sent into space, recently finished deploying its 18 hexagonal mirrors covered in a microscopically thin layer of gold, and Spanish planetary scientist Noemi Pinilla Alonso is now nervously and impatiently waiting for her turn to use the complex …

Space can be a violent place. Objects crash into each other, causing destruction or leading to the formation of larger celestial bodies. Scientists serve as astronomical detectives and use the

Curtin research has revealed that soil erosion and wildfires contributed to a mass extinction event 201 million years ago that ended the Triassic era and paved the way for the rise of dinosaurs in the Jurassic period.

MIT scientists argue the best carbon storage solution is turning carbon quickly into rock. Now they aim to investigate the best possible areas to conduct these processes. 

Faculty from three finalist teams in the MIT Climate Grand Challenges explain how they are drawing upon geological, biological, chemical, and oceanic processes to develop game-changing techniques for carbon removal, management, and storage.

Ecologist Paula Pappalardo hones strategies for identifying these critical ocean organisms

Joellen Russell uses floating robots, supercomputers and satellites to predict the global climate and carbon cycle, particularly the role of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.