Tag: Earth Science

Credit: Gang Chen China is an example of a country that suffers severe damage caused by high-impact weather and accompanying ...

Research team deciphers enzymatic degradation of sugar from marine alga

Credit: Thomas Wilfried Marine algae in the world's oceans store huge quantities of CO2, i.e. they bind approximately as much ...

Castor oil-based inhibitors to remove gas hydrate plugs in Arctic deposits

The new compound proved to slow down plug growth and enhance productivity of deposits Gas hydrate plugs not only obstruct ...

Snow algae thrive in high-elevation ice spires, an unlikely oasis for life

Credit: Steve Schmidt / University of Colorado Boulder High in the Andes Mountains, dagger-shaped ice spires house thriving microbial communities, ...

Scientists discover the biggest seaweed bloom in the world

July 4, 2019

Credit: Brian Lapointe, Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. ( July 4, 2019).--Scientists led by ...

Experiments show dramatic increase in solar cell output

Method for collecting two electrons from each photon could break through theoretical solar-cell efficiency limit CAMBRIDGE, MA -- In any ...

NASA peers into hurricane Barbara’s heavy rainfall

Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL/NOAA The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite passed over the storm and measured the rate in ...

The energy system of the future and Power-to-X

Credit: Paul Scherrer Institute/Jörg Roth In a joint research project of five Swiss competence centres for energy research, scientists of ...

Picturing access to energy for all in sub-Saharan Africa

The UN's Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7) aims to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for ...

How to sell labriculture: Less lab, more culture

'High-tech' framing may be driving negative attitudes towards cultured meat In the near future, we will be able to mass-produce ...

Martindale awarded NSF CAREER Grant for paleontological research and education

Credit: University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences The National Science Foundation has awarded a CAREER grant to ...

Barbara now a major hurricane on NASA satellite imagery

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites passed over the Eastern ...

Getting more heat out of sunlight

Material developed at MIT can passively capture solar heat for home heating or industrial applicationsCredit: Lin Zhao CAMBRIDGE, MA -- ...

UCI, UC Merced: California forest die-off caused by depletion of deep-soil water

Study warns of threats from future concurrent drought and heat eventsCredit: Margot Wholey / UC Merced Irvine, Calif., July 1, ...

Scientists, students to conduct first live, interactive public broadcasts from arctic ocean

On an 18-day voyage July 18 -- August 4, 2019 US/Canadian team of experts and students to measure vital signs ...

Analysis finds US ecosystems shifting hundreds of miles north

Credit: Craig Chandler/University Communication/University of Nebraska-Lincoln Whole ecosystems are shifting dramatically north in the Great Plains, a phenomenon likely linked ...

New study solves mystery of salt buildup on bottom of Dead Sea

Credit: NASA/Hubble WASHINGTON--New research explains why salt crystals are piling up on the deepest parts of the Dead Sea's floor, ...

NASA finds winds tore Tropical Storm 04W apart

Credit: NASA/NRL Visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed Tropical Cyclone 04W had been torn apart from wind shear in ...

NASA looks at Tropical Storm Barbara’s heavy rainfall

Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL Tropical Storm Barbara formed on Sunday, June 30 in the Eastern Pacific Ocean over 800 miles from the ...

Two-degree climate goal attainable without early infrastructure retirement