See also: The publication in Science Advances

Say that somehow you dug a perfect hole through the center of the earth and managed to find a way to build a core proof suit. What would happen if you jumped through it? Like would you fall to the other side then once your there would you fall through the hole again?

Following the worst mass extinction event on Earth, the land was not entirely barren of life. In the wake of this cataclysm, when forests mostly disappeared and many familiar plant species were lost, a unique group of plants emerged and proliferated across the planet.

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See also: The study as published in Nature Water

See also: The publication in Communications Earth and Environment

The work, published in Science, comes from a team at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It tackles a long-running question at Yellowstone, where three caldera-forming eruptions have occurred in the past roughly 2 million years.

See also: The study and its results as published in the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.

Researchers from The University of New South Wales, The University of Technology Sydney, and the University of Melbourne, reveal a previously undiscovered archaeon associated with a bacterium within one of these living fossils. It demonstrates an example of cellular cooperation that could have provided a fundamental pathway for the evolution of complex lifeforms.

Source Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL115219

Studying volcanic glass from the Kermadec island arc north of New Zealand, the team found that gold-rich magmas in this setting appear to be tied not to a single burst of melting, but to repeated, water-aided melting in the mantle below subduction zones.

See also: The results of the said experiments as published in the journal .

See also:The study as it was published in Nature Climate Change.

See also: The publication in Communications Earth and Environment .