The World's Tallest Peak is Still Growing Every Year Mount Everest continues to move a few inches to the northeast and rise a ...

Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...

The rare earth industry has spent years circling the same problem. Minerals move through too many borders, too many ...

Earth's earliest life left behind very few chemical traces. Fragile remains, like ancient cells and microbial mats, were buried, squeezed, heated, and broken apart by the planet's shifting crust ...

Many grown adults struggle with some of the basic concepts they learned back in fifth grade. It's not that you’re not smart—it’s just that sometimes, life doesn’t require you to remember the specifics ...

Two mysterious blobs deep inside Earth may hold clues about the origin of life on our planet, new research finds. Deep ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

Abstract: Information theory (IT) is an excellent framework for analyzing Earth system data because it enables us to characterize uncertainty and redundancy and is universally interpretable. However, ...

Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if ...

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