6+ hour, 17+ min ago   (838+ words) Gondwana was far larger than scientists once believed, and a new study suggests the ancient supercontinent may have played an important role in creating the conditions that helped life rapidly expand on Earth. Published September 9, 2026, in Science Advances, the study…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (932+ words) The Mediterranean faces a near-certain chance of experiencing a tsunami wave higher than 1 meter within a 30-year period, UNESCO warned in 2022, and scientists are now highlighting how quickly such waves could reach parts of the French Riviera. In some local…...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago   (760+ words) Hundreds of previously undetected seismic events have been found beneath Antarctica, including 245 near the ocean-facing edge of Thwaites Glacier, raising new questions about how the so-called "Doomsday Glacier" is responding to changing conditions around it. The events were identified between…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (200+ words) Scientists have dated a rare Martian meteorite to 1.273 billion years old, offering the first sample from an approximately 1.8-billion-year gap in the geological record of Mars and pointing to a previously unsampled, pristine region deep inside the planet. Filling a…...