ABSTRACT The language of feedbacks is ubiquitous in contemporary earth sciences, and the framework of feedback analysis is a powerful tool for diagnosing the relative strengths of the myriad mutual ...

Part biography and part scientific detective story, this debut by British science journalist Walker (a features editor for New Scientist) tells the story of Paul Hoffman, the brilliant, cantankerous ...

Signs of a global catastrophe about 680 million years ago, known as Snowball Earth, have been found in the DNA of living bacteria in the oceans. Their genomes show that they nearly died out around ...