Life on Earth owes its existence to photosynthesis – a process which is 2.3 billion years old. This immensely fascinating…
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Most diamonds are formed deep inside Earth and brought close to the surface in small yet powerful volcanic eruptions of…
Not so long ago, Earth’s interior was thought to be made up of four layers: the crust, mantle, (liquid) outer…
Our Earth is structured sort of like an onion – it’s one layer after another. Starting from the top down,…
At about 10 o’clock on the night of February 28 2021, a fireball streaked through the sky over England. The…
November 15 2022 marks a milestone for our species, as the global population hits 8 billion. Just 70 years ago, within…
Imagine a future where, despite efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly, parts of the world have become unbearably hot.…
People have been exploring the surface of Mars for over 50 years. According to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs,…
“To see a world in a grain of sand”, the opening sentence of the poem by William Blake, is an oft-used…
Atomic clocks, combined with precise astronomical measurements, have revealed that the length of a day is suddenly getting longer, and…