The aurora’s very high altitude booster
Credit: ERG science center A critical ingredient for auroras exists much higher in space than previously thought, according to new ...
Tag: Geophysics
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 ...
URI researchers: Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive process
Results have implications for life on MarsCredit: Photo courtesy Justine Sauvage NARRAGANSETT, R.I. - February 26, 2021 - A team ...
Getting ahead of climate change
Earth observation data could help the humanitarian community reduce the destruction of natural disastersCredit: Nauman et al. As climate change ...
Tool that more efficiently analyzes ocean color data will become part of NASA program
Stevens uses machine learning-driven techniques to develop a long-awaited tool that better reveals the health of Earth's oceans and the ...
UH geologists search for remains of lost ocean beneath earth’s surface
Team awarded 2.5 million CPU hours on NSF-funded supercomputer to conduct researchCredit: University of Houston College of Natural Sciences and ...
Drones used to locate dangerous, unplugged oil wells
Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York BINGHAMTON, NY -- There are millions of unplugged oil wells in the ...
Mark Torres wins Geochemical Society’s Clarke Award
Early-career honor goes to fourth Rice U. geochemist in 12 yearsCredit: Photo by Woodward Fisher HOUSTON - (Feb. 12, 2021) ...
Discovery of a new law of phase separation
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from Institute of Industrial Science at The ...
Can super-Earth interior dynamics set the table for habitability?
Are super-Earths capable of creating conditions that are hospitable for life to arise and thrive?Credit: Image is courtesy of Yingwei ...
How do electrons close to Earth reach almost the speed of light?
New study found that electrons can reach ultra-relativistic energies for very special conditions in the magnetosphere when space is devoid ...
National company acquires exclusive rights to Purdue rare-earth element innovations
American Resources Corp. acquires environmentally safer method developed at Purdue to advance clean energy technologies that require rare-earth elements, a ...
More than meets the eye (of the storm): Typhoons in Korea amplified wildfires in America
Study shows that cyclones could affect seemingly unrelated weather disasters in an entirely different continentCredit: NASA on Unsplash The year ...
Harnessing the power of AI to understand warm dense matter
CASUS researchers develop effective tool to describe exotic state of matterCredit: Attila Cangi The study of warm dense matter helps ...
Diamonds need voltage
In addition to heat and high pressure, small electric fields can also play a decisive role in the formation of ...
Brazilian dam collapse could have been predicted with right monitoring technology
Credit: Google Earth One of Brazil's worst environmental disasters - a dam collapse that also killed more than 200 people ...
Improving long-term climate calculations
A new method reduces uncertainties in computer model estimations of climate change over thousands of years.Credit: TiPES/HP Climate researchers have ...
‘Ocean 100’: Small group of companies dominate ocean economy
Researchers identify the 100 transnational corporations extracting the majority of revenues from economic use of the world's oceanCredit: Science Advances ...
Researchers at Brazil’s space institute discover why lightning branches and flickers
Analysis of the first super slow motion recordings of upward flashes suggests a possible explanation for the formation of luminous ...
Do as the Romans: Power plant concrete strengthens with time
Credit: Ippei Maruyama, Nagoya University, and Chubu Electric Power Co. A rare mineral that has allowed Roman concrete marine barriers ...
