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Believe it or not, we can (kind of) measure the air pressure of early Earth! Blue-green algae's response to different nitrogen pressures may tell us what fossils to look for and what those fossils tell us about ancient air pressure.

February 13, 2019 by Sanjoy Som Read More

Lasers and Fool’s Gold Give a Glimpse Into Our Ocean’s Past The amount of pyrite in the sea floor gives us an idea of how much oxygen was in the ocean millions of years ago.

January 30, 2018 by Daniel Gregory Read More

Chasing Alien Worlds with a Flying Telescope SOFIA is the name of a telescope that flies in the stratosphere to collect data that is unimpeded by the Earth's atmosphere

September 27, 2017 by Daniel Angerhausen Read More

An Overlooked Opportunity to Breathe Without Oxygen How some bacteria may use soluble manganese to breathe

July 24, 2017 by Nadia Szeinbaum Read More

Why is the Sun Yellow? Red dwarf stars are much more common, so are we a fluke?

May 18, 2017 by Jacob Haqq-Misra Read More

Betting on Aliens Would you invest in the search for extraterrestrials for a chance to win big?

April 4, 2017 by Jacob Haqq-Misra Read More

New Method for Detecting Signs of Life In the Universe A classic “biosignature,” or sign of life, is the presence of three gasses in a planet’s atmosphere -- oxygen, ozone, and methane.

January 30, 2017 by Sciworthy Staff Read More

An Expedition to Collect Fish in Africa for a Gene Archive

August 20, 2015 by Tuuli Mäkinen Read More

Expedition to find rare pipefish in Queensland Australia

May 16, 2015 by Sciworthy Staff Read More

When the Bangladesh people think the monsoon starts

October 7, 2014 by Sciworthy Staff Read More

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