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A new theory about the Great Oxidation Event helps explain the appearance of significant concentrations of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere about 2.5 billion years ago.

We are publishing in full a rejoinder sent in by the Power Division of the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources on our report titled “Matarbari Coal Power Plant: Nature sacrificed for power” published on November 17. Given the importance of the subject, we took some time to prepare our reply.

Senior consultant and owner of Anthias Consulting Ltd, president of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Analytical Division and visiting fellow at The Open University, Diane Turner is determined to succeed at anything she puts her mind to.

“E.T. phone home.” In 1982, the world was introduced to the term “extraterrestrial” and the idea that a being from another planet could send a signal to its home in order to summon a ride back. That signal in “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” was sent from a modified electronic toy, which means it could have been... Read more »

Randy Prickett (left) pilots the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s remotely operated vehicle Doc Ricketts while MBARI Senior Scientist Steven

The ocean’s dark depths hold many secrets. For more than three decades, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute has been exploring the deep waters

Members of the university community are encouraged to take part in online survey and virtual town hall event

Climate advocacy groups, researchers and students in Illinois are at the forefront of a clean energy movement. They’re pushing for low-carbon energy sources and energy efficiency to slow the effects of climate change — and they all approach the problem from different angles. The electricity and transportation sectors accounted for 29% and 25% of United...

New research finds the low-viscosity, rate-strengthening properties of rock nanocrystals may influence fault zone instability, offering a new explanation for earthquake formation both in Earth’s crust and deep in subduction zones. The research was led by Matej Pec and Hongyu Sun from MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.