Daily Mail on MSN

Inside the plan to create Earth's 'black box': Indestructible device will record the apocalypse

A bizarre structure dubbed 'Earth's Black Box' will be built in a remote Tasmanian airfield as a silent witness to humanity's ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

National Science Foundation Should Create Next-Generation Earth Systems Science Initiative, New Report Says

WASHINGTON — To explore the complex interactions between the natural world and society and enhance our understanding of Earth’s systems — the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, biosphere, ...

Violent asteroid impacts may have helped spark life on early Earth

Long before oceans teemed with life, Earth endured relentless violence. Asteroids slammed into its surface again and again, ...
Science Daily

Crushed, zapped, boiled, baked and more: Nature used 57 recipes to create Earth's 10,500-plus 'mineral kinds'

A 15-year study details the origins and diversity of every known mineral on Earth, a landmark body of work that will help reconstruct the history of life on Earth, guide the search for new minerals ...