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Ooid shoals on the Great Bahama Bank (photo credit: Lidya Tarhan)
February 23, 2023
The rise of marine animals hundreds of millions of years ago had far-reaching implications for the eventual diversity of life on Earth. It also permanently changed the way...
February 15, 2023
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation congratulates the winners of the 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships. These 125 early-career scholars represent the most promising scientific...
Volcanic eruption of Mount Fagradalsfjall in Iceland, September 2021. (© stock.adobe.com)
January 17, 2023
Yale researchers have a new theory to explain some of the geochemistry of “hotspots” — magma plumes from deep in the Earth that erupt at the surface. Hawaii and Iceland are...
January 11, 2023
In the 1990s, Ellen Thomas and James Zachos uncovered an anomalous episode in the planet’s history in which massive quantities of CO2 and methane were released into the...