How Ancient Forests Formed Coal and Fueled Life as We Know It
Modernity owes much to coal deposits laid down in swamps around 350 million years ago. But why did this time period produce so much of it? ...read more
Modernity owes much to coal deposits laid down in swamps around 350 million years ago. But why did this time period produce so much of it? ...read more
These ancient hominins walked the Earth for three times as long as modern humans have. But scientists today still have much to learn about our evolutionary kin. ...read more
Some legal text is so highly prescribed that it functions like an algorithm. So a team of computer scientist have created a programming language that can capture and execute these laws. ...read more
A Doggerland of the Great Lakes? Underwater rock formations on the lakebed of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron may have been created by hunters thousands of years ago. ...read more
Volcanic activity saturated Earth’s atmosphere with C02, drastically warming the planet. As dominant species died out, dinosaurs filled the new ecological openings. ...read more