Killer electrons in strumming sky lights
Credit: PsA project Computer simulations explain how electrons with wide-ranging energies rain into Earth's upper and middle atmosphere during a ...
Tag: Geophysics
Irreversible hotter and drier climate over inner East Asia
Heatwaves pushing Mongolia's climate to a tipping pointCredit: Ken Shono, Unsplash Mongolia's semi-arid plateau may soon become as barren as ...
Offshore submarine freshwater discovery raises hopes for islands worldwide
Credit: University of Hawai'i Twice as much freshwater is stored offshore of Hawai'i Island than was previously thought, according to ...
Ice sheets on the move: how north and south poles connect
Changes in the Antarctic ice sheet were driven by the melting ice sheets in the Northern HemisphereCredit: Thomas Ronge Over ...
New material ‘mines’ copper from toxic wastewater
Nature-inspired material designed by Berkeley Lab scientists removes copper from wastewater with atomic precisionCredit: Berkeley Lab We rely on water ...
Flow physics could help forecasters predict extreme events
Researchers are studying a tornado's song and other 'doors to danger' in an increasingly chaotic worldCredit: Brian Elbing VIRTUAL MEETING ...
CCNY researchers overcome barriers for bio-inspired solar energy harvesting materials
Credit: Top image adapted from Journal of Physical Chemical Letters. Bottom image, Kara Ng, Nature Chemistry 2020 Inspired by nature, ...
Researchers develop more efficient method to recover heavy oil
Credit: Yuichiro Nagatsu/ TUAT The current global supply of crude oil is expected to meet demand through 2050, but there ...
New tool to combat terrorism
Dust on boots, baggage can track down suspectsCredit: Flinders University Forensic science experts at Flinders University are refining an innovative ...
New tool predicts geological movement and the flow of groundwater in old coalfields
Credit: University of Nottingham A remote monitoring tool to help authorities manage public safety and environmental issues in recently abandoned ...
Looking inside the glass
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - A team of researchers from the Institute of ...
USask physicist teams up with U.K. partners in world-first program of quantum technologies
Credit: USask As part of a new U.K.-Canada collaboration, a University of Saskatchewan quantum physics team will develop a highly ...
Magma ‘conveyor belt’ fuelled world’s longest erupting supervolcanoes
Credit: Pixabay International research led by geologists from Curtin University has found that a volcanic province in the Indian Ocean ...
New mineral discovered in moon meteorite
Donwilhelmsite is important for understanding the inner structure of the earthCredit: © Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Ansgar Greshake A team ...
The craters on Earth
Credit: Illustration: Gottwald, Kenkmann, Reimold: Terrestrial Impact Structures, The TanDEM-X Atlas, Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. Prof. Dr. Thomas Kenkmann, geologist ...
AI detects hidden earthquakes
New technology from Stanford scientists finds long-hidden quakes, and possible clues about how earthquakes evolveCredit: Mousavi et al., 2020 Nature ...
Human activity has made Murray estuary more vulnerable to drought
Historic metallic 'fingerprints' allow scientists to reconstruct estuary formationCredit: University of Sydney Human impacts on the Lower Lakes of the ...
Tetrahedra may explain water ‘s uniqueness
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science at ...
Who is driving whom? Climate and carbon cycle in perpetual interaction
Bremen climate scientists disclose changing feedback mechanisms between climate and global carbon cycle over the last 35 million yearsCredit: William ...
Stellar explosion in Earth’s proximity
Discovery of iron-60 and manganese-53 substantiates supernova 2.5 million years agoCredit: Dominik Koll / TUM When the brightness of the ...