Earth science – Page 5
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FeatureWhat is the moon made of?
Mike Sutton looks at what we’ve learned about the moon’s chemistry in the 50 years since Apollo 11
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ResearchHelicopter NMR prepares to detect Arctic oil spills
ExxonMobil-funded project readies giant airborne coil for accidents as shipping lanes open up
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ReviewThe Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
Megan McGregor reviews Paul Steinhardt’s book about the discovery of quasicrystals
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ReviewThe Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
Jack Tarrant reviews David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth
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ResearchHippo dung drives savannah silicon cycle
Eating silicon-rich grass on land and spreading dung in rivers provides vital nutrients for microscopic diatoms
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ReviewOrigins: How the Earth Made Us
Lewis Dartnell promises to show how the terrain around us shapes not only the physical space we live in but also the political, economical and evolutionary climates of who we are
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PodcastTalc: Magnesium silicate
Coating your naked body with powdered magnesium silicate may sound strange, but it's an important part of many bathtime rituals
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ResearchHarnessing plants and microbes to tackle environmental pollution
Eucharia Nwaichi is using biochemistry to clean up one of the most polluted places on Earth
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ResearchStrontium isotope map re-examination casts doubt on bronze age migration theories
New findings could change the way we think about prehistoric peoples
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OpinionCollaborative atmospheres
A project in three European countries is alerting rural communities to ozone pollution
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ResearchMineral surfaces promoted variation in prebiotic RNA
Thermodynamic model probes the entropic cost of enriching RNA strands adsorbed on a surface
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PodcastNitrogenase
The mysterious enzyme that can beat the world’s biggest chemical process when it comes to breaking the dinitrogen triple bond
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ResearchChinese cave holds carbon dating ‘Holy Grail’
Carbon-14 measurements from stalagmites takes carbon dating back as far as it can go
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ResearchEvidence emerges from the deep of Earth's first amino acids
Geochemical processes shows how buildings blocks for life on Earth may have been synthesised
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PodcastLosing the Nobel Prize by Brian Keating – Book club
Physicist Brian Keating lost the Nobel Prize, then went on to re-evaluate its worth and examine how it could be improved
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ReviewCatching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System
Revealing the mysteries of space, one mote of dust at a time
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ResearchChemical analysis adds to evidence for early microfossils
Well-preserved samples enable examination of intact microstructures rather than powdered material
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OpinionThe China CFC dilemma
New production breaking the Montreal Protocol demands a concerted response