Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity—or not ...

Since physical and chemical erosion yield comparable carbon fluxes, studying both together is essential to avoid biases in erosion-driven carbon flux estimates.

A new source of nitrogen has been discovered. Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in southwestern Germany ...

New research into fossilized rock formations in Zimbabwe is shedding light on Earth's nitrogen cycle before the rise of ...

Cyclical stocks fluctuate with the economic cycle, performing well in expansions but poorly in recessions. Investing in cyclical stocks with longer-term growth drivers, like Disney and Airbnb ...

As massive glaciers scratched and scarred Earth’s rocky surface, they freed less-common minerals, which were later flushed ...

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations ... and scientists have been unable to find the cause of this cycle. Barker and his colleagues started by looking at changes in oxygen ...

Living organisms need nitrogen as a central building block for protein formation, for example. However, although our ...

Similarly, the space rock also took the top spot on NASA's Sentry risk list. The Sentry list contains all known near-Earth asteroids with a nonzero probability of striking Earth. Those ...