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Our 2023 Nature Communications paper was one of the most read articles of 2023
March 2024
![Aspidella, one of the weird and wonderful fossils of Llangynog, Wales (Anthony Clarke).](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2024/02/Walesfossil-320x269.png)
New ages on some of Britain’s oldest fossils
February 2024
![The Ukraine-Australia Research Fund.](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2024/02/UAUS-320x320.png)
Ukraine-Australia Research Fund allows Timescales Group to collaborate with Ukrainian researchers
February 2024
![WA Tall Poppy Scientist of the Year](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2023/10/MG_9079-320x320.png)
Timescaler Dr Olierook announced WA Young Tall Poppy Scientist of the Year
October 2023
![A pink diamond from the Argyle Mine.](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2023/09/diamond-320x188.png)
Pink diamonds formed during ancient supercontinent breakup
September 2023
![Three Minute Thesis competition winner](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2023/09/Taryn3MTwinner-320x220.jpg)
Tools to See Through Time: Timescales PhD student Taryn Scharf winner of the the Three Minute Thesis competition at Curtin University
August 2023
![Earth in chaos](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2023/07/abstract_chaos_earth_climate_model-320x441.jpg)
Dating the formation of Earth’s continents
July 2023
![St Brides Bay rocks](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2023/06/St-Brides-Bay-rocks-320x168.jpg)
What ancient rocks in Pembrokeshire tell us about Wales’ past
June 2023
![Drone image of the Bunda Cliffs, where the Nullarbor Plain meets the Great Australian Bight](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2023/04/BundaCliffsNullarbor-320x240.jpg)
Ancient rocks reveal Nullarbor Plain’s transition from lush forest to desert
April 2023
![World's oldest known impact crater](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2023/04/oldestImpact-320x157.jpg)
How the world’s oldest known meteorite impact structure changed the chemistry of Earth’s crust
April 2023
![Controls on the severity of past environmental crises](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2022/09/Figure-1_Cambrian-explosion-320x263.jpg)
Australian Research Council funding for Dr Olierook, Timescales Group
September 2022
![A bullseye stands out on 3D satellite data of the Nullarbor Plain](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2022/09/Nullarbor-bullseye-320x180.jpeg)
A giant ‘bullseye’ on the Nullarbor Plain was created by ancient sea life
September 2022
![Illustration of Milky Way Galaxy](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2022/09/milkyway-320x247.jpg)
Comet impacts formed continents when Solar System entered galactic arms
August 2022
![The Pilbara Craton](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2022/09/resized-Pilbara-Craton-747x420-1-320x180.jpg)
Study finds evidence that giant meteorite impacts created the continents
August 2022
![The enormous Lulo Rose diamond at 170 carats could become the most expensive diamond ever - we tell you why only some diamonds are coloured.](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2022/08/LuloRose-320x180.jpg)
Perfectly imperfect: the discovery of the second-largest pink diamond has left the world in awe
July 2022
![A new Curtin University study has found that water was transported much deeper in the early Earth than previously thought, shedding new light on how the continents were originally formed](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2022/08/Early-earth-320x108.jpg)
Earth’s ancient water cycle was key to making continents
July 2022
![The speed and volume of carbon dioxide emitted from supervolcanoes controlled the severity of past environmental crises on Earth](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2022/08/Supervolcano-320x213.jpg)
Supervolcano Study Finds CO2 Emissions Key to Avoiding Climate Disasters
July 2022
![By firing lasers finer than a human hair at tiny grains of a mineral extracted from beach sand, Curtin researchers have found evidence of an almost four billion-year-old piece of the Earth’s crust that lies beneath the South-West of WA](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2022/08/lasers-light-the-way-t-2-320x213.jpg)
Lasers light the way to discovery of ancient crust beneath Western Australia
July 2022
![Can sand tell us more about the Earth's history?](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2022/03/Zircon-sand-320x177.jpg)
Unlocking ancient history of Earth from grains of sand
March 2022
![The alleged Maniitsoq 'Crater' is debunked!](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2022/03/Crater-320x141.png)
The Oldest Crater from a Meteorite…Isn’t a Crater after All?
February 2022
![This year Nature Communications has published original research and opinion across the Earth sciences. To celebrate these contributions, the editors of the Earth team select some of their highlights from the papers, commentary reviews, perspectives and editorials published in 2021.](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2022/01/NatComms2021-4-320x180.jpg)
Our 2021 Nature Communications paper is highlighted by the journal editors
December 2021
![A photo of the ruby scientists found that contained ancient traces of life](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2021/10/Ruby-2.5-Ga-320x180.jpg)
Scientists discover trace of ancient life in a 2.5 billion-year-old ruby
October 2021
![Researchers collect sediments from a rocky stream with a helicopter and steep rock hills in the background](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2021/08/2021-Eos-stream-collection-320x240.jpg)
Earth’s Continents Share an Ancient Crustal Ancestor
August 2021
![Dr Steven Andrews inspecting the boundary between successive lava flows in Wollaston Forland in northeast Greenland. The faint red band directly above the geologists head represents the eruption surface of a lava flow that was broken down into laterite by the hot wet climate.](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2021/08/2021-55-Ma-Greenland-warming-320x240.jpg)
When Greenland was green: rapid global warming 55 million years ago shows us what the future may hold
August 2021
![Karijini NP in the Pilbara](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2021/04/Karijini-Pilbara-320x181.jpg)
Just add (mantle) water: new research cracks the mystery of how the first continents formed
April 2021
![Yarrabubba crater](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2020/03/Yarrabubba-crater-320x180-320x180.jpg)
Discovery of oldest recognised impact structure one of the most read articles of 2020
March 2021
A research paper from Curtin’s Yarrabubba asteroid discovery team was one of the most read Nature Communications articles in Earth, environmental and planetary sciences in 2020. The paper, Precise radiometric age establishes Yarrabubba, Western Australia, as Earth’s oldest recognised meteorite impact structure, made the Top 50 Read Articles of 2020.
![A melt water stream carrying ancient zircon crystals](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2021/02/Greenland-stream-1-320x170.jpg)
Earth’s outer shell ballooned during massive growth spurt 3 billion years ago
January 2021
![Stirred, not shaken](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2021/07/Kristoffer_Szilas_stirred-320x175.jpg)
The world’s oldest meteor crater is not located in Maniitsoq
January 2021
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![Magma conveyer belt](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2021/02/Lava-Flowing-320x213.jpg)
Magma ‘conveyor belt’ fuelled world’s longest erupting supervolcanoes
November 2020
![Pacific Ocean](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2020/07/earth-pacific-696x368-320x169.jpg)
Uncovering the two faces of Earth
June 2020
![Nuuk](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2020/03/nuuk-320x180-320x180.jpg)
Greenland’s deep secret of continent formation and structure
February 2020
![Yarrabubba crater](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2020/03/Yarrabubba-crater-320x180-320x180.jpg)
Yarrabubba crater in WA outback world’s oldest recognised impact structure
January 2020
![Mineral sands](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2020/03/mineral-sands-320x180-320x180.jpg)
Mineral sands’ 500-million-year journey from Antarctica to Western Australia unearthed
![Snowball Earth](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2020/03/snowball-earth-320x180-320x180.jpg)
600M-year-old ice age caused ‘Snowball Earth,’ radically changing planet’s climate
October 2019
![Volcano](https://s37430.pcdn.co/scieng/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2020/03/volcano-320x180-320x180.jpg)
Giant ancient supervolcanoes threw rock right across Australia
August 2016