Large Antarctic Ice Shelf, home to a UK research station, is about to break apart
A large section of the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica, which is home to the British Antarctic Survey's Halley Research ...
Tag: Geophysics
Otherworldly mirror pools and mesmerizing landscapes discovered on ocean floor
Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute GULF OF CALIFORNIA, MEXICO - While exploring hydrothermal vent and cold seep environments, Dr. Mandy Joye ...
A universal description of non-equilibrium colloid phase separation
Tokyo, Japan - Liquids, with their flowing dynamics, are often far from equilibrium. This makes it particularly hard to model ...
Shrimp claw inspires new method of underwater plasma generation
Claw can produce jets of plasma reaching over 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit Texas A&M University researchers are looking to nature for ...
Rhine-Main Universities undertake research into transport processes in the tropopause
RMU Initiative Funding for Research to finance joint meteorology and climate science project of the Rhine-Main UniversitiesCredit: photo/©: Peter Hoor ...
In ancient oceans that resembled our own, oxygen loss triggered mass extinction
Credit: Stephen Bilenky TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Roughly 430 million years ago, during the Earth's Silurian Period, global oceans were experiencing ...
Massive earthquakes provide new insight into deep Earth
Credit: Wenyuan Fan TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- In the waning months of 2018, two of the mightiest deep earthquakes ever recorded ...
Earth’s deep mantle flows dynamically
As ancient ocean floors plunge over 1,000 km into the Earth's deep interior, they cause hot rock in the lower ...
How fluid viscosity affects earthquake intensity
A young researcher at EPFL has demonstrated that the viscosity of fluids present in faults has a direct effect on ...
Chemical storage of renewable energies
KIT coordinates Germany-wide DFG Priority Program -- Investigation of catalytic systems under fluctuating operation conditions when using wind and solar ...
UCF research laying groundwork for off-world colonies
Space economy estimated at $1.1 trillion by 2040Credit: UCF: Karen Norum Before civilization can move off world it must make ...
CCNY’s Nir Krakauer in monsoon research breakthrough
Credit: Nir Krakauer With average precipitation of 35 inches per four-month season over an area encompassing most of the Indian ...
CLEAR at UTA continues collaboration with the Apache Corporation
Analyzing surface, groundwaterCredit: UT Arlington The Collaborative Laboratories for Environmental Analysis and Remediation at The University of Texas at Arlington ...
Synchrotron light to analyse mining waste in marine sediment in the Portman bay
Fighting marine pollutionCredit: GRC- Marine Geosciences /University of Barcelona The light of ALBA Synchrotron will enable revealing the environmental impact ...
Periodic table still influencing today's research
Credit: Photo by MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table, and the ...
Early spring rain boosts methane from thawing permafrost by 30 percent
Credit: Kiyomi Taguchi/University of Washington Arctic permafrost is thawing as the Earth warms due to climate change. In some cases, ...
Global warming didn't pause — researchers disentangle 'hiatus' confusion
The reality of ongoing climate warming might seem plainly obvious today, after the four warmest years on record and a ...
Adventures in phase space: Unified map on plastic and elastic glasses
Osaka University-led researchers simulate the phase diagram of a simple glass, showing how its plasticity, elasticity, yielding and jamming depend ...