For decades, scientists have known that the effects of global climate change could have a potentially devastating impact across the globe, but Harvard researchers say there is now evidence that it may also have a dramatic impact on public health.
Researchers analyzing meteorite fragments that fell on a frozen lake in Canada have developed an explanation for the origin of life's handedness – why living things only use molecules with specific orientations.
The greatest climate change the world has seen in the last 100,000 years was the transition from the ice age to the warm interglacial period.
Washington, D.C. — In order to understand Earth's earliest history–its formation from Solar System material into the present-day layering of metal core and mantle, and crust–scientists look to meteorites.