Scientists sampled tiny bone fragments sealed inside several Pompeii casts and tested DNA and isotopes to ask, and answer, ...

Ancient teeth reveal that flexible feeders survived past climate shocks, while habitat specialists rapidly declined.

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A ...

Hailed as one of the 50 most important women in science, she found ways to study rare radioactive isotopes and advanced the ...

The hydrogen bomb, unlike the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima, generates energy through fusion by fusing isotopes of hydrogen, ...

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...

When a Mars-sized meteorite slammed into Earth billions of years ago, the impact completely reset any and all chemical ...

The Arctic Ocean was once an important source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere — and it could become one again, ...

Researchers who compared levels of three potassium isotopes in surface rocks and primordial rocks found a deficit of one ...

A study published in Science Advances and led by the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, uncovers how flexibility made ...

The discovery, published in Nature Geoscience, provides unprecedented insight into the chemical building blocks that formed our planet and challenges long-held assumptions about the complete ...