Can extreme melt destabilize ice sheets?
Credit: Farrin Abbott Nearly a decade ago, global news outlets reported vast ice melt in the Arctic as sapphire lakes ...
Tag: Geophysics/Gravity
Study reveals the workings of nature’s own earthquake blocker
Findings point way toward more detailed earthquake predictionsCredit: Jamie Howarth/Victoria University of Wellington A new study finds a naturally occurring ...
UT begins offshore search for sand resources to protect Texas from coastal erosion
Credit: Texas General Land Office Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin will embark from Galveston on April 14 ...
More than 5,000 tons of extraterrestrial dust fall to Earth each year
Credit: © Cécile Engrand/Jean Duprat Every year, our planet encounters dust from comets and asteroids. These interplanetary dust particles pass ...
Asteroid crater on Earth provides clues about Martian craters
Research team led by the University of Göttingen discovers crater floor sagging from bowl-shaped volcanic ash layerCredit: Gernot Arp, University ...
A song of ice and fiber
Sandia embarks on Arctic seafloor data project using new underwater techniqueCredit: Photo by Kyle Jones, Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ...
Early indicators of magma viscosity could help forecast a volcano’s eruption style
2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano in Hawai'i provided scientists with an unprecedented opportunity to identify new factors that could help ...
Evidence of Antarctic glacier’s tipping point confirmed for first time
Researchers have confirmed for the first time that Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica could cross tipping points, leading to ...
In the deep sea, the last ice age is not yet over
Gas hydrate deposits in the Black Sea react to post-glacial climate changesCredit: Christian Rohleder. Gas hydrates are a solid compound ...
Nearly $1 million for an INRS research project in Madagascar
A project to assess the risks of well contamination in Madagascar receives major fundingCredit: INSTN-Madagascar The project of Professor Geneviève ...
Black hole shows magnetic fields surrounding it are strong enough to resist gravity
Wits University astrophysicists are the only two scientists on African continent that contributed to the study.Credit: Credit: © EHT Collaboration ...
Virtues of modeling many faults: New method illuminates shape of Alaskan quake
A University of Tsukuba research team find that the irregular behavior of the conjugate fault system responsible for the 2018 ...
TU Graz researchers identify chemical processes as key to understanding landslides
Credit: © Kieffer - TU Graz/DCNA Mass movements such as landslides and hill-slope debris flows cause billions of euros in ...
Tracking past earthquakes along the Japan Trench
IODP Expedition 386 focuses on the record of giant earthquakes of the past preserved in deep marine sedimentsCredit: Credits © ...
University of Utah scientists plumb the depths of the world’s tallest geyser
Credit: Courtesy of Sin-Mei Wu/University of Utah When Steamboat Geyser, the world's tallest, started erupting again in 2018 in Yellowstone ...
Traces of Earth’s early magma ocean identified in Greenland rocks
Credit: Hanika Rizo New research led by the University of Cambridge has found rare evidence - preserved in the chemistry ...
Geological engineers create landslide atlas of Kerala, India
Credit: Sajinkumar KS Dedicated to the thousands of lives lost in landslides, the new atlas assesses landslide risk in 13 ...
New study highlights first infection of human cells during spaceflight
Credit: Graphic by Shireen Dooling for the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University Astronauts face many challenges to their health, ...
Earth’s deep mantle may have proton rivers made of superionic phases
Credit: Qingyagn Hu Pierfranco Demontis said in 1988, "Ice becomes a fast-ion conductor at high pressure and high temperatures," but ...
Making sense of commotion under the ocean to locate tremors near deep-sea faults
New method for more accurately estimating the location of tectonic tremors in deep ocean faults could help to better understand ...
