What happens when environmental change outpaces life’s ability to adapt? | MIT News
When an animal’s environment changes faster than the animal can adapt, its chances of survival can flat-line. The…
The Haystack 37m Telescope: A new era of astrophysical research | MIT News
The Haystack 37m Telescope has been a landmark in radio astronomy and radar studies of the solar system since…
A complicated future for a methane-cleansing molecule | MIT News
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in driving up global temperatures.…
Some early life forms may have breathed oxygen well before it filled the atmosphere | MIT News
Oxygen is a vital and constant presence on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the case. It…
Earthquake damage at deeper depths occurs long after initial activity | MIT News
Earthquakes often bring to mind images of destruction, of the Earth breaking open and altering landscapes. But after…
Geologists discover the first evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old “proto Earth” | MIT News
Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of “proto Earth,” which formed about 4.5 billion…
The first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges, study suggests | MIT News
A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the…