Tag: Earth Science

Credit: Andrey Atuchin A new study published Feb. 24 in the journal Royal Society Open Science documents the earliest-known fossil ...

Team awarded 2.5 million CPU hours on NSF-funded supercomputer to conduct researchCredit: University of Houston College of Natural Sciences and ...

Credit: Image courtesy of Karolina Spustova. New research by the University of Oslo provides evidence that the "protocells" that formed ...

Credit: Kamol Das Carbon nanotubes are tiny. They can be a hundred thousand times smaller than the width of a ...

University of Arizona assistant professor Isabel Barton is bringing together people and ideas from multiple industry specialties, academic disciplines and ...

A new global ice sheet reconstruction for the past 80,000 yearsCredit: NIOZ, Kim Sauter During ice ages, the global mean ...

Strong, energetic flows in the lower atmosphere can greatly enhance wind farm performance, if the height is right.Credit: Srinidhi N. ...

Credit: Marine Conservation Society Seychelles A new study has for the first time explored the rate at which the world's ...

A team led by sustainability theme leader Madhu Khanna suggests a new use for land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve ...

Tahoe Rain or Snow weather spotters help reduce inaccuracies in estimating precipitation in the Sierra NevadaCredit: Desert Research Institute Reno, ...

Brenner Base Tunnel as a Lighthouse ProjectCredit: © BBT SE After completion in about ten years, the Brenner base tunnel ...

Researchers at the European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecasts and TU Freiberg develop a framework to better predict extreme rainfall ...

Credit: Fei Zheng/ Zong-Liang Yang China is just one of many countries in the Northern Hemisphere having what researchers are ...

Credit: © Tetyana Milojevic Early Mars is considered as an environment where life could possibly have existed. There was a ...

Radiocarbon measurements on the remains of 42.000 years old New Zealand kauri trees provide the basis for better calibration of ...

Credit: Helge Missbach A research team including the geobiologist Dr. Helge Missbach from the University of Cologne has detected organic ...

New UD study finds first example of underwater domesticator-domesticate relationshipCredit: Illustration by Rohan Brooker Throughout nature, there are instances of ...

Credit: Icelab at Umeå University The distribution of vegetation is routinely used to classify climate regions worldwide, yet whether these ...

Just like in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the answer was 42Credit: Nelson Parker (www.nelsonskaihukauri.co.nz) The temporary breakdown of ...

Current setback policy not most effective approach to protect people from exposureCredit: Penn State Air pollution levels may have exceeded ...