Peter Molnar to speak on big cats, Panama, and armadillos with "A Story of Climate and Life"
Geologist and 2014 Crafoord Prize-winner will deliver the 4th annual John Carlson Lecture.
Newly discovered flux in the Earth may solve missing-mantle mystery
Research points to large reservoirs of material deep in the mantle that may help to explain Earth’s origins.
Huge and widespread volcanic eruptions triggered the end-Triassic extinction
Some 200 million years ago, an increase in atmospheric CO2 caused acidification of the oceans and global warming that killed off 76 percent of marine and terrestrial species on Earth.
When the first stars blinked on
The very first stars may have turned on when the universe was 750 million years old.
Current, former MIT researchers win Cozzarelli Prize
Waldbauer, Summons and Newman cited for PNAS paper showing evidence of early oxygen on Earth.
At the core of a continent
New data finds regions of North America have remained extremely stable for more than one billion years.
Timeline of a mass extinction
New evidence points to rapid collapse of Earth’s species 252 million years ago.
