Arts & Sciences is the heart of William & Mary, building on a long tradition of excellence in research, mentorship and hands-on learning. The university's largest academic unit, Arts & Sciences ...

Phytoplankton—microscopic plant-like organisms—are the foundation of the marine food web, sustaining everything from tiny ...

Thousands of Taylor Swift fans jumping and dancing in sync have caused seismic activity in other cities. The same could happen in Indianapolis.

This Research Topic targets interdisciplinary themes arising from the growth of exoplanetary research and biogenicity—the origin and distribution of life in the universe. By integrating insights from ...

New research shows plants absorb 31% more CO2 than previously estimated, raising the global GPP to 157 petagrams per year.

Harvard researchers found that when a meteorite nicknamed S2 paid a visit to our planet 3 billion years ago, it may have helped life flourish.

More than 2 billion years before the dinosaur-destroying meteorite, a meteorite the size of four Mt. Everests, known as S-2, crashed into Earth, creating a planetwide tsunami that actually had a ...

The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that ...

A hiker’s pack usually gets lighter over time as they plow through trail mix and water, but Annika Dechert likes to joke that ...

This page has prepared a full list of NASA's Earth Science Missions with search selection options to explore further. NASA explores the unknown in air and space, innovates for the benefit of humanity, ...

How much of Earth’s plant diversity is distributed across islands, and how might this affect conservation efforts? It emerges that islands contain a disproportionately large share of global ...

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