Study says Southern California earthquakes increased stress on major fault line
Credit: Bill Barnhart, University of Iowa A University of Iowa-led study has found that a series of Southern California earthquakes ...
Tag: Geophysics
Human activities boosted global soil erosion already 4,000 years ago
European and Canadian researchers join efforts to record changes of soil erosion over timeCredit: (Picture: Jean-Philippe-Jenny) Soil erosion reduces the ...
What happens under the Yellowstone Volcano
Study provides information about the processes deep inside the EarthCredit: Steinberger et al. The Yellowstone National Park in the USA ...
Mathematicians find gold in data
Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT Press Office Russian mathematicians and geophysicists have made a standard technique for ore prospecting several times more effective. ...
Surveying solar storms by ancient assyrian astronomers
Scientist at the University of Tsukuba studies ancient cuneiform records for evidence of unusual solar activity 2,700 years ago, and ...
Pressure may be key to fighting climate change with thermoelectric generators
New way to use compression techniques to improves thermoelectric performance, bringing researchers closer to practical applications that could help fight ...
UNH researchers find northern forests have lost crucial cold, snowy conditions
Credit: MaxPixel DURHAM, N.H.--As the popular saying goes, "winter is coming," but is it? Researchers at the University of New ...
African evidence support Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
First African evidence to support hypothesis of an asteroid impact that contributed to the extinction of large animals 12,800 years ...
Plasma flow near sun’s surface explains sunspots, other solar phenomena
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SORCE For 400 years people have tracked sunspots, the dark patches that appear for weeks at a time on ...
Study explores how rock expands near soil surface in Southern Sierra Nevada
Credit: Russell Callahan A University of Wyoming researcher and his team discovered that weathering of subsurface rock in the Southern ...
Low sea-ice cover in the Arctic
Second-lowest September minimum since observations beganCredit: Graphic: meereisportal.de The sea-ice extent in the Arctic is nearing its annual minimum at ...
UTA physicist studying how extreme weather in space affects satellites
Solar windCredit: UT Arlington A physicist at The University of Texas at Arlington is developing a new scale to measure ...
Diamond shines its light on Moon Rocks from Apollo Missions, Martian meteorites and Vesta
Nearly 50 years after our first steps on the Moon, samples from the Apollo missions, Mars and Vesta still have ...
Tracking down climate change with radar eyes
Long-term measurements document sea level rise in the ArcticCredit: DTU/DGFI-TUM Over the past 22 years, sea levels in the Arctic ...
Upgrade of a research IceCube
Credit: IceCube/NSF The IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica is about to get a significant upgrade. This huge detector consists of ...
Super volcanic eruptions interrupt ozone recovery
Credit: Global Volcanism Program Since the Antarctic ozone hole was detected in 1985, depletion of the ozone layer--the "big umbrella" ...
NIST’s compact atomic gyroscope displays new twists
Credit: Burrus/NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have upgraded their compact atomic gyroscope to enable ...
Methane vanishing on Mars: Danish researchers propose new mechanism as an explanation.
An interdisciplinary research group from Aarhus University has proposed a previously overlooked physical-chemical process that can explain the rapid disappearance ...
New study solves mystery of salt buildup on bottom of Dead Sea
Credit: NASA/Hubble WASHINGTON--New research explains why salt crystals are piling up on the deepest parts of the Dead Sea's floor, ...
New model suggests lost continents for early Earth
Credit: Derrick Hasterok A new radioactivity model of Earth's ancient rocks calls into question current models for the formation of ...