Over the past two centuries, humans have quietly nudged the very axis of our planet. As thousands of dams have been built across the world, Earth's poles have tilted by over 1 meter (3 feet). The ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets. Four billion years ago, Earth was a lifeless world, but a dynamic one. Crashing waves ...

Small pond, big life. For their new study, the researchers analyzed samples taken from meltwater ponds in Antarctica. In 2018, Summons and colleagues from New Zealand traveled to a region of the ...

'Microlightning' in water droplets may have sparked life on Earth. ScienceDaily . Retrieved July 12, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 03 / 250314170431.htm ...