What are the oldest cell phones? It is hard to believe, but the portable handset wasn’t always a fixture in modern life. That ...

We investigated the bristlecone pine tree after William Adams from London asked us: "What's the oldest tree or other living organism on Earth?" If you've got a science question you want BBC ...

Scientists analysing a meteorite have discovered the oldest material known to exist on Earth. They found dust grains within the space rock - which fell to Earth in the 1960s - that are as much as ...

but some of the very oldest items on Earth are barely visible to the naked eye. One example is a carbonaceous chondrite (a type of meteorite), also known as CAI in Allende. Scientists believe ...

To do so, the research team considered the North China Craton (NCC), western Pacific Ocean, since the middle Mesozoic (168 million years ago, Ma) using four-dimensional mantle flow models of Earth ...

Once you had garden of Eden, Now you have this. Vegas. A playpen in the desert. Bliss. Here, 5,000 years of Civilization Can be experienced in an instant. Have a nice day. Enjoy. For in a flash it ...

The durable mineral zircon is the oldest known stuff in our Earth's crust. It is formed only under extreme temperatures and is difficult to destroy, but until now we've never figured out exactly ...

Isua Formation. These results provide the oldest estimate of the strength of Earth’s magnetic field derived from whole rock samples, which provide a more accurate and reliable assessment than ...

to get a better understanding of how these processes can cause the disintegration of some of the oldest regions on Earth through a process known (fittingly) as “decratonization.” This craton ...

Earth hosts some of the oldest living organisms, many of which have survived for thousands or even millions of years. From ancient trees to microbial communities, tap to read about oldest living.

The flowing water about three kilometres below the surface was between 1.5bn and 2.6bn years old, according to tests, making ...

Scientists say they have discovered the oldest evidence of photosynthesis on Earth. Plants - and a few other things in nature - use photosynthesis to feed. It involves using energy from the sun to ...