Discovered in December 2024 in the Chilean desert, the asteroid 2024 YR4 initially posed a minuscule risk of impacting Earth. NASA had initially assessed a striking probability of just 0.004% for a ...

These clips are from the BBC series, Primary Focus Science and Science Clips, Earth, Sun and Moon. Our main source of natural light is the Sun. Nuclear reactions at the core of the Sun create ...

Saint Louis University’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Geospatial Science combines strong classroom and field-based instruction with internationally recognized research. The department offers ...

A significant body of research published in the journal Science highlights the persistent decline of soil moisture across various continents, driven primarily by human activities that disrupt the ...

Scientists at the Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) Big Science Program — a major international initiative — are turning to their global colleagues to find out. They have created a list of 30 ...

Perhaps the falling of water, the most crucial element that sustains us, also played a greater role in the origin of life on Earth than we previously recognized.” Mindy Weisberger is a science ...

Scientists have uncovered new information about the Earth's core: it may not be completely ... Visualizing what is happening at the inner core is "almost science fiction," Vidale said to CNN ...

While life on Earth does usually find a way ... actions currently,” paleontologist Christian Kammerer told Popular Science in a 2023 interview. “[They] represent a very rare case of rapid ...

After a lifetime of writing specifically for those in the science community, physical oceanographer John Whitehead of ...

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