The amount of living matter on Earth has fallen by half since the beginning of human civilisation. This is one of the staggering facts from the most comprehensive global census of the mass of ...

An international group of scientists has proposed that fallout from hundreds of nuclear weapons tests in the late 1940s to early 1960s could be used to mark the dawn of a new geological age in ...

Researchers just measured an atom with a half-life of 18 sextillion years — 1 trillion times the age of the universe.

Environment More than half of life on Earth experiencing unprecedented conditions An analysis of changes to global ecosystems has revealed that almost nowhere is untouched by the influence of ...

Including substances created through interactions with byproducts of life, such as the oxygen produced in photosynthesis, life’s fingerprints are on about half of all minerals.

Earth is so far the only known planet on which life exists—with liquid water and a stable atmosphere. However, the conditions were not conducive to life when it formed. The gas-dust cloud from which ...

NASA discovers link between Earth’s core and life-sustaining oxygen Date: June 27, 2025 Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Summary: For over half a billion years, Earth’s magnetic field ...