A new simulation model shows Earth's evolution over the past 100 million years in a very detailed manner. The sun sets behind artist Luke Jerram's 'Floating Earth' at Pennington Flash on November 22, ...

A physicist has mounted one of the most detailed technical challenges yet against the idea that our universe is a computer simulation, arguing that the energy required to run such a program would ...

Described as a "knowledge collider," and now with a pledge of one billion euros from the European Union, the Living Earth Simulator is a new big data and supercomputing project that will attempt to ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Researchers simulated temperature trends and tectonic plate movement to monitor their impact on mammals.

Understanding Earth’s carbon cycle has important implications for understanding climate change and the health of biospheres. But scientists don’t yet understand how much carbon lies deep in Earth’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What would happen if (when?) a 310-mile-wide asteroid collides with Earth? That’s the fun ...

European scientists have started work on an ambitious plan to predict the future of climate change: rebuilding a virtual version of the entire Earth that they can use to play out different scenarios.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Simulating the human brain and the Earth's climate are two of the most important challenges in science, according to Robert Bishop, chairman of the advisory board to the Blue ...

Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact ...

Of the thousands of space rocks whizzing through the solar system, there is one that has astronomers more worried than any ...

What would happen if (when?) a 310-mile-wide asteroid collides with Earth? That’s the fun question behind the simulation in the video below. And the answer is ...