If coral reefs were to disappear overnight, life would slowly lose its ecological balance and eventually die out.

As a kid, it was tough for me to grasp the massive time scale of Earth’s history. Now, with nearly two decades of experience as a geologist, I think one of the best ways to understand our planet’s ...

Weizmann Institute researchers have developed a new way to track the culprit – giant viruses – and identify their traces in specific types of tiny algae that they attack.

A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses the face of the sun during a solar eclipse.

has finally revealed their official trailer for the Warner Bros Animation movie called The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie. This wacky, clever, fun sci-fi animated comedy is a new take ...

Here’s how it works. The idea that comets delivered water to early Earth has fallen out of favor in the past decade, but a new look at data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta mission ...

“Dark comets are a new potential source for having delivered the materials to Earth that were necessary for the development of life,” said Darryl Seligman, lead author of the recent study.

The project will harness satellite, space-based and remote sensing technologies, alongside aquatic applications, to observe and predict blue green algae blooms, which will help to inform the ...

Citation: Extraterrestrial life may look nothing like life on Earth—astrobiologists seek framework for how complex systems evolve (2024, December 9) retrieved 27 December 2024 from https://phys ...

A new study extends this count to ... followed by marine algae. To piece together this grand story of life on Earth, Crockford and his colleagues analyzed data on ancient photosynthesizers and ...

A 2014 satellite photo of the Sivash region shows off the kaleidoscopic colors of a series of shallow, hypersaline lagoons — each filled with a different kind of algae. When you purchase through ...

In the 2018 documentary The Search for a New Earth, Hawking forecasted that Earth could become uninhabitable by 2600 due to global warming and unsustainable human activity, transforming into "a ...