Vera Korasidis receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Julian Rogger receives funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation. University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding ...

Can we turn to the past to learn more about how interactions between plants and pollinators changed during climate change? This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication ...

The Red Sea began to form 30 million years ago as the African and Arabian tectonic plates pulled apart, or rifted. It was a deep valley dotted with lakes until the Mediterranean Sea flooded it 23 ...

Vera Korasidis received funding from the University of Melbourne Elizabeth and Vernon Puzey Fellowship Award. Scott Wing's fieldwork was supported by the Roland W. Brown fund of the Department of ...

Earth formed around 4.54 billion years ago. Knowing how old Earth is can be more difficult to confirm because Earth's age is not only based on the age of rocks, but also the isotopic estimates of what ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Oct 23, 2025, 12:48pm EDT Oct 23, 2025, 01:42pm EDT Illustration ...

An exploding star may have sent cosmic shrapnel flying to hit Earth 10 million years ago, and astronomers have now narrowed down the most likely culprits behind this interstellar incident. Earlier ...

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