A new study suggests that the intense asteroid bombardment that struck the young Earth billions of years ago may have played an important role in creating the conditions needed for life to emerge. Today, asteroid impacts are often associated with destruction and mass extinctions. But during Earth’s earliest history, these violent collisions may have helped […]

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From high-speed battering rams to gravity tractors, the technology exists to protect the planet. The question is whether humanity will act in time — and in concert.

By studying fungal microfossils in 66-million-year-old rock samples from the Denver Basin in Colorado, Johns Hopkins University microbiologists have confirmed that the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact triggered a worldwide fungal takeover, and uncovered a second, previously unknown ecological crisis just before it.

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