The eruption that buried Pompeii is helping scientists synchronize Earth’s geological clocks
Scientists used the precisely recorded 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius to recalibrate argon-argon dating, reducing uncertainty for…
A Gravitational Battle Within the Earth Is Changing the Length of Days
Earth’s days are not exactly the same length. Scientists have been recording small variations in for decades. These…
Mercury Isn’t What Scientists Thought: New Study Reveals a Surprisingly Different Surface
Mercury may preserve evidence of a hotter, more extreme interior than scientists once expected. Credit: Shutterstock From tiny…
Multilayer soil moisture depletion intensifies drought impacts on global ecosystems
Gridded datasets The ERA5-Land reanalysis produced by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) is a land-focused…
Mars Rover Discovers Mysterious Field of Honeycomb Textures on Red Planet: ‘Took Our Breath Away’
Honeycomb pattern on Mars – Curiosity rover / NASA As NASA’s Curiosity rover ascended the Martian valley named…
Scientists Tracked These Strange Arctic Icebergs and Found Something Unexpected on the Seafloor
A polar research expedition back in 2021 noticed something weird along the Fram Strait, a marine passage into…
Scientists discover a major geological rift tearing India in two
Beneath the Himalayas, the Indian Plate is doing something geologists once thought continents largely avoided: it is coming…
Scientists Unveil the Hidden Electrical Structure of the U.S., Exposing Serious Risks
Over the course of nearly 20 years, scientists installed and collected data at more than 1,800 magnetotelluric data…
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…
WNY without lake-effect snow? Ancient iceberg scratches reveal a reverse snowbelt | Local News
BUFFALO — The region’s legendary snowfall totals are largely the result of one unlucky geographic reality: the city…
The Earth is tearing itself apart near Vancouver Island in the Pacific Northwest
Subduction zones can look permanent on a map. They run for hundreds or thousands of miles, haul oceanic…
Antarctic seismic data points to an ancient structure circling Earth’s core
A layer only a few to a few dozen kilometers thick may be draped across the boundary between…