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A gaze at exoplanet haze

scientific article published in Nature

A killer tail spine likely helped this ancient sea scorpion subdue its prey

scientific article published in 2017

Ancient Mars probably too cold for liquid water

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-04-13

Ancient crust rises from the deep ⬇️

scientific article published on April 25, 2013

Ancient human-sloth hunt hinted at in 15,000-year-old footprints

scientific article published in 2018

Ancient ‘otter bear’ may have popped clams off rocks like a bottle opener

scientific article published in 2016

Ape-like fossils show hints of human ancestry

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-04-11

Are countries being honest about their carbon emissions? Satellites could tell

scientific article

Artificial Wood

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Back to Black

scientific article published on 01 March 2018

Bat-winged dinosaur discovery poses flight puzzle

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-04-29

Bracing for the Big One

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

Caribbean Extinctions

scientific article published on 27 November 2007

Chilled out?: Ice could lurk beneath martian equator

scientific article published in 2009

Climate simulation doubles Sahara's age

scientific article published in Nature

Core Concept: Albedo is a simple concept that plays complicated roles in climate and astronomy

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Core Concept: Lava tubes may be havens for ancient alien life and future human explorers

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Core Concept: Seismic tomography uses earthquake waves to probe the inner Earth

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Death toll from landslides vastly underestimated

journal article; published in Nature on 2012-08-08

Dinosaur family tree poised for colossal shake-up

scientific article published in Nature

Disaster goes global: The eruption in 1600 of a seemingly quiet volcano in peru changed global climate and triggered famine as far away as Russia

scholarly article by Sid Perkins published 30 September 2009 in Science News

Dressing up dinos: Adding soft tissue to bone helps scientists, paleoartists bring ancient creatures to life

scientific article published on 25 January 2010

EVOLUTION. How teeth got tough: enamel's evolutionary journey

scientific article published in September 2015

Earth is only just within the Sun's habitable zone

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-12-11

Earth-like planet may be not so hospitable after all, thanks to blasts of radiation

scientific article published in Science

Earth-shaking dinosaur discovered

scientific article published in Nature

Earth: Melt pond falls through ice in Greenland: Watching flow sharpens picture of moving glaciers

scientific article published in 2009

Earth: Warming in central Pacific ocean may offer better cyclone predictor: Find suggests shifts in activity are more reliable than El Niño

scientific article published in 2009

Enormous otters once roamed southwestern China

scientific article published in 2017

First fossil footprints of saber-toothed cats are bigger than Bengal tiger paws

scientific article published in Science

Fossil reveals features of mammal line that outlived dinosaurs

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-08-15

Fossils reveal 'beer-bellied' dinosaur

scientific article published in Nature

Fossils throw mammalian family tree into disarray

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-08-07

Geoscience: Fracking fundamentals

scientific article published in March 2014

Geosciences: Earth works

scientific article published in Nature

Giant ancient amphibian was bigger than a human

scientific article published in 2015

Global Vineyard

Going under down under: Early people at fault in Australian extinctions

scientific article published in 2009

How the first visitor to our Solar System may have formed—no alien technology required

scientific article published in 2020

Hundreds of sea-floor gas plumes spotted by sonar

scientific article published in Nature

Ice Age Ends Smashingly: Did a comet blow up over eastern Canada? ⬇️

ScienceNews article by Sid Perkins about the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

Ice proved cool way to move stones for Forbidden City

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-11-04

Inner Workings: A new crop of landers and rovers seeks to answer key questions about Venus-and, by extension, Earth.

scientific article

Inner Workings: How saving some of the Southeast's oldest trees might help scientists monitor climate change

scientific article

Inner Workings: Orbiting experiment may help decode the mysteries of rubbly asteroids

scientific article published on December 2016

Inner Workings: Ramping up the fight against Florida's red tides

scientific article

Invasive, indeed: One species-Homo sapiens-consumes nearly a quarter of Earth's natural productivity

scientific article published in 2009

Kraken versus ichthyosaur: let battle commence

journal article; published in Nature on 2011-10-11

Lake retreat: African river valley once hosted big lake

scientific article published on 01 November 2003

Lakes on ice

scientific article published on 01 August 2012

Life: Elephant kin liked the water: Isotopes in tooth fossils add new clues to debate

scientific article published in 2009

Life: New species could fill big shoes once worn by island's dispersers: Experiments suggest ‘rewilding’ for plant survival

scientific article published in 2009

Life: Polar bears are a modern species: Fossil reveals close genetic ties to brown bears in Alaska

scientific article published in 2010

Long live plastic: With plastics in museums decomposing, a new effort seeks to halt the demise of materials commonly thought to be unalterable

scientific article published on 23 April 2010

Long-lost continent found under the Indian Ocean

scientific article published in Nature

Mammoth Findings

scientific article published in 2005

Mantle plume propelled India towards Asia

article

Mapping river geometry gives clues to past terrains

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-03-06

Melting glaciers’ fizzing bubbles lead to noisy seas

scientific article published in 2015

Methane threat to drinking water

scientific article published in Nature

Mini mammoth once roamed Crete

scientific article published in 2012

Mummifying-balm recipe is older than the pharaohs

scientific article published in Nature

New Type of Hydrothermal Vent Looms Large

News Feature: Realizing the roads of the future

scientific article published on 01 January 2021

No Love for Comet Wipeout ⬇️

article published in 2012 by Sid Perkins

Not-so-perma frost: Warming climate is taking its toll on subterranean ice

scientific article published on 10 March 2007

Oldest primate skeleton unveiled

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-06-05

Once upon a Lake

article

Origin of life. From hell on Earth, life's building blocks

scientific article published in December 2014

Patterns from Nowhere

scientific article (publication date: 17 May 2003)

Planet-sized 'waves' spotted in the Sun's atmosphere

scientific article published in Nature

Plastic waste taints the ocean floors

scientific article published in Nature

Predators feel the pinch

scientific article published in 2010

Proposed exoplanets may be just gas and dust

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-07-10

Ratzilla: Ancient giant rodent chomped like a crocodile

scientific article

Sea floors host surprise methane-munching microbes

scientific article published in Nature

Skull suggests three early human species were one

scientific article published in Nature

Sleeping giant

scientific article published on November 2011

Storm norms: Caribbean corals and sediments yield clues to hurricane frequency

scientific article published on 23 April 2010

Story one: Early whales gave birth on land: Fossils fill gaps in story of land-hyphen;'s to-hyphen;'s water transition

scientific article published in 2009

Sudden chill: Even a limited nuclear exchange could trigger a climate catastrophe

scientific article published in 2009

Tails tell the tale of dinosaur sex

scientific article published in Nature

The iron record of Earth's oxygen: Scientists are decoding the geological secrets of banded iron formations

scientific article (publication date: 9 October 2009)

This duck-faced dinosaur took a rare plunge back into water

scientific article

Three of Earth’s largest extinctions may have been caused by loss of essential element

scientific article published in 2015

Tides turn on Titan

journal article; published in Nature on 2012-06-28

To escape predators, this gecko sheds something unusual: its skin

scientific article published in 2017

Tree-ring tale

scientific article published in 2011

Triassic extinction tied to massive lava spills

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-03-21

Unexpected archive: Mammoth hair yields ancient DNA

scientific article published in 2009

Virginia earthquake wins by a landslide

journal article; published in Nature on 2012-11-07

Water ice found near Mars’s equator could entice colonists and life-seekers

scientific article published in 2017

What doomed mammoths on a remote Alaskan island?

scientific article published in 2016

Why do these fake eyes scare off predators?

scientific article published in 2015

You could probably have outrun a T . rex

scientific article

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