As the storm-damaged south west main line re-opens at Dawlish today, this is a good moment to remember an ambitious experiment in railway technology enacted there more than 150 years ago The railway ...

The early atmosphere was mainly carbon dioxide and water vapour. Water vapour condensed to form the oceans. Photosynthesis caused the amount of carbon dioxide to decrease and oxygen to increase.

Explore our campus, meet lecturers and current students, and learn more about what it's like to study at Manchester. Research in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences covers three main ...

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE combined science students studying the greenhouse effect, global climate change, the carbon footprint, and atmospheric pollutants. If you struggled ...

A NEW exhibition at Oxford’s Museum of the History of Science charts the study of the weather from Aristotle to the ozone layer. Running at the Broad Street museum until April 7 next year, the ...

Scientists have discovered that millions of viruses are travelling around the Earth's atmosphere. The viruses are transported up on the back of organic particles suspended in air and gas - and then ...

For the first time, an international team of researchers has discovered hydrotrioxides forming in atmospheric conditions. Scientists have warned that this new class of super reactive gases in the ...

MARS had its atmosphere, which once allowed it to hold oceans that could have seen life evolve, stripped away from it by solar winds from our own SUN. NASA has just made the historic announcement that ...