The researchers, led by geochemist Dr Nigel Blamey, were examining rock salt (halite) samples from a drill core in Australia ...

S tretching around 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) along western North America, the Tintina fault has long been assumed to be ...

The authors acknowledge the crystals they made, while “predominantly hexagonal diamonds” still contain “trace imperfections ...

There are many ways for rovers and spacecraft to look for evidence of life, recent or ancient. Now, researchers report a new ...

The mineral suggests Mars may have been active for longer than we thought, with potential implications for life on the Red ...

Tibetan foxes are monogamous and typically have litters of two to five young after a gestation period of 50 to 60 days. Given the barren and treeless landscapes that they inhabit, the young remain ...

They determined it was a new, juvenile-aged member of Mammalodontidae, a family of whales that lived between 30 and 23 million years ago, during the Oligocene. So far, fossils belonging to this family ...

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To test the theory, the study authors examined ethnographic reports from 60 cultures around the world. Summing up their ...

If and when completed, it will be significantly longer than that of the world’s current longest suspension bridge, the 2,023-meter (6,637-foot) long 1915 Çanakkale Bridge that connects the European ...

In this study, after adjusting for other lifestyle and dietary factors associated with diabetes risk, potato intake emerged ...