Coral reefs have long been celebrated as biodiversity hotspots—but new research shows they have also played a much deeper ...

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

Chinese researchers have discovered that interstitial carbon in iron-carbon alloys behaves in a superionic, liquid-like state under Earth’s core pressure and temperature conditions. Beneath Earth’s ...

Around 56 million years ago, Earth suddenly got much hotter. Over about 5,000 years, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere ...

Scientists are sharpening their forecasts for how long Earth can remain a comfortable home for complex organisms, and the ...

Reporting from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Ministerial Council for 2025, held in Bremen last week, IFLScience reveals how ESA is stepping up and doubling down on its commitment to monitoring our ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

Rerouted shipping during Red Sea conflicts accidentally created a massive real-world experiment, letting scientists study how ...

When militia attacks disrupted shipping lanes in the Red Sea, few imagined the ripple effects would reach the clouds over the ...

Last year, the most violent geomagnetic storm to strike Earth in over two decades did more than disrupt GPS systems and ...

Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of ...

For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the ...