Scientists uncover how ancient ocean salt controlled carbon storage and shaped global temperatures at the end of the last ice ...
Shaking caused by quakes may cause ocean floor vents to release more nutrients, triggering blooms in plant-like organisms ...
In recent years, science has unveiled some astonishing secrets—from what lurks inside black holes to the discovery of a vast new “8th continent.” Even closer to home, researchers have uncovered a ...
Europa has a deep ocean, but a new study suggests its seafloor may be too quiet to supply the energy life needs to survive.
In order to understand currents, tides and other ocean dynamics, scientists need to accurately capture sea surface height, or ...
With findings on Earth’s polar extremes and its innermost core, scientists shaped how we look at the planet in 2025 in ...
Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly ...