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Ever wonder what your street looked like in the 1980s or even the 30s? With Google Earth's historical imagery feature, you can view almost any location as it would've appeared throughout time.
Over the past two billion years, this supercontinent cycle has produced at least three major supercontinents: Columbia, Rodinia, and Pangea. Each one formed as landmasses gradually collided, only to ...
The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...
New research funded by the UNC Collaboratory revealed that 90,000 buildings have experienced flooding over 24 years, some ...
Earth system scientists developed the planetary boundaries framework for measuring and tracking the stability and resilience ...
A collaborative effort between the universities of Cordoba and Granada improved the spatial resolution of monthly climate data from 22,000 years ago to the year 2100, enabling more localized and ...
From a distance, the Earth Rover looks much like other field robots. However, upon closer inspection, the weed control method ...
In September 2023, a global seismic mystery began to unfold. Every 90 seconds, the Earth pulsed with a strange, low-frequency vibration that lasted for nine days straight.
A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using a ...
New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...
Mesh Ventures, the early-stage VC firm co-founded by Sam Lam, son of Quanta Computer chairman Barry Lam, is marking its 10th anniversary with a renewed focus on four compute-intensive sectors ...
The order Primates consists of not only our closest relatives on earth, the seven great apes, but also over 450 species of monkeys, lemurs, lorises, and galagos. Primates are fantastically diverse, ...