This illustration shows how the changes in the electromagnetic properties of xenon, iron, and nickel under these intense pressures allow for the formation of XeFe3 and XeNi3.

Do you know where your xenon is?

Euoplocephalus

Flipside of a dinosaur mystery: ‘Bloat-and-float’ explains belly-up ankylosaur fossils

A fieldwork photo from Réunion Island shows the flank of the Cirque de Cilaos, looking out towards the Indian Ocean.

Modern volcanism tied to events occurring soon after Earth’s birth

Earth’s geomagnetic field

New data helps explain recent fluctuations in Earth’s magnetic field

A tiny extinct rail (30-40g) is overshadowed by a regular duck.

Miniscule flightless birds have lived in New Zealand’s wetlands for millions...

Volcanic tramping in Eastern Sicily: An old system feeds “young” Etna

This is crushed dentine from a Woolly Mammoth for DNA extraction.

Complete genomes of extinct and living elephants sequenced

This moisture in the layer of weathered rock that is commonly located beneath soils is an important part of the water cycle on the local and global level. Tree roots tap into the rock moisture and release it back into the atmosphere as water vapor, and water flows through the fractures and becomes part of the seasonal groundwater storage (blue arrows).

Hidden ‘rock moisture’ could be key to understanding forest response to...

Cremastosperma brevipes, French Guiana.

Geological change confirmed as a factor behind the extensive diversity in...

Hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert.

Life in world’s driest desert seen as sign of potential life...

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