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Ancient Biosphere Illustration
August 2, 2018
A sample of ancient oxygen, teased out of a 1.4 billion-year-old evaporative lake deposit in Ontario, provides fresh evidence of what the Earth’s atmosphere and biosphere...
Sea Sediments Photo
August 1, 2018
On an ancient seafloor, burrowing animals appeared and churned up sediment as a sort of opening act for the Cambrian explosion, the rapid emergence and spread of...
Fossils
July 30, 2018
Yale researchers Christopher Whalen and Derek Briggs conducted a comprehensive survey of marine life during the Paleozoic Era and came away with a new explanation for the...
June 7, 2018
In a paper published in Current Biology (June 4th) former graduate students Daniel Field (University of Bath) and Tyler Lyson (Denver Science Museum), together with Professor...
June 5, 2018
Rising oceanic and atmospheric oxygen levels through time have been crucial to enhanced habitability of surface Earth environments. Few redox proxies can track secular...
May 17, 2018
This award, the second for Sarah, will support her work on the behavior of sulfur at extreme conditions, as it applies to Jupiter’s moon Io and other S-rich planetary bodies...