The presence of exposed land on the early Earth is a prerequisite for a certain type of
prebiotic chemical evolution in which the oscillating activity of water, driven by short-term …

Amide bond formation, the essential condensation reaction underlying peptide synthesis, is
hindered in aqueous systems by the thermodynamic constraints associated with …

The advent of radial velocity (RV) and transit photometry method has resulted in the
detection of more than 5000 exoplanets since 1995. Of these detected planets, a significant …

Prebiotic systems chemistry suggests that high phosphate concentrations were necessary to
synthesise molecular building blocks and sustain primitive cellular systems. However …

A systematic survey of 57 different paragenetic modes distributed among 5659 mineral
species reveals patterns in the diversity and distribution of minerals related to their evolving …

The paleomagnetic record is an archive of Earth's geophysical history, informing
reconstructions of ancient plate motions and probing the core via the geodynamo. We report …

The process that generated the continental crust has long been debated. One school argues
that, through most of geological time, the crust formed at convergent margins like most …

Since the first discovery of planets in another solar system of our galaxy in the early 90s and
the discovery of 51 Pegassi b, a Jovian-type planet around a Sun-like star in 1995 (Mayor …

Late accretion onto the Hadean Earth included large impacts that could have influenced
early habitability, either by sterilizing the planet or alternatively catalyzing the origin of life by …

We report ab initio atomistic simulations of hydrous silicate melts under deep upper mantle
to shallow lower mantle conditions and use them to parameterise density and viscosity …