Mars Organic Geochemistry-Are We Alone, and Where Did We Come From?
As NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit began collecting images for a 360-degree panorama of new terrain, the rover…
Reduction of tropical cyclone-induced ocean carbon outgassing since 1993
Ciais, P. et al. Five decades of northern land carbon uptake revealed by the interhemispheric CO2 gradient. Nature…
Canada’s Billion-Year-Old Rocks Could Hold the Future of Clean Energy
Continuous long-term measurement underground at a mine in northern Ontario provided evidence of sustained accumulation and discharge of…
This volcanologist peers into ‘crystal balls’ to forecast eruptions
Vitals Hometown: San Sebastián, Spain Current position: Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow and associate professor of…
‘The most lasting legacy:’ Famed Alberta mantle geochemist namesake of new mineral
From the coalfields of northern England to the Arctic snows and the steaming jungles of Brazil, diamond hunter…
Meet the Mysterious Electrides – Eos
This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. For close to a century, geoscientists have pondered a mystery:…
Global water security threatened by rising inequality
He, C. et al. Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions. Nat. Commun. 12, 4667 (2021). Article …
Distant planets might form their own water
Sometimes it’s necessary to break a few diamonds to figure out what’s happening on an alien planet’s…
Scientists Just Detected a Long-Lost Planet ‘Hiding’ Inside Earth
If proto-Earth had all its parts and chemistry replaced to become the Earth we know today, can the…
Life on Earth May Be Thanks to a Lucky Planetary Collision
Artistic illustration of the early formation phase of the Solar System. At that time, the young Sun (in…
Scientists Discover Mysterious Freshwater Reservoir Beneath the Ocean Floor. How Did It Get There?
Co-chief scientists Brandon Dugan of the Colorado School of Mines and Rebecca Robinson of the University of Rhode…
New Study Fuels Debate Over World-Changing Comet Strike 12,800 Years Ago
Roughly 12,800 years ago, as Earth was emerging from its last great ice age, temperatures in the Northern…