A new study published in Nature Communications links the biology of decay to the chemistry of manganese in ways that...

In a striking new study, researchers report that the early Earth may have grown through fast, high-impact collisions with embryos...

Beneath Maine’s salt marshes, underground chemistry is anything but static. As water migrates through soils and rocks, dissolved minerals, reactive...

Europa’s moon-sized puzzle just got sharper. Beneath its icy shell, Jupiter’s moon Europa hides a deep subsurface ocean—one of the...

Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) is widely viewed as a high-efficiency, low-carbon route for nitrogen removal, yet many mechanistic details have...

A new study is putting the deep ocean’s most elusive tectonic features under a sharper lens, revealing that the Gorda...

A new study in Communications Earth & Environment reports that late Cambrian life suffered a dramatic blow during the Marjuman...

Feedstock-derived biochar is often marketed as a predictable tool for improving soils, removing contaminants, recycling nutrients, and storing carbon. Yet...

Sperm whales have long posed a puzzle for marine scientists: the only whale species known to rest vertically just beneath...

Venus looks like a planet frozen in time—hot, dry, and long assumed to be geologically dormant. Yet new modeling work...