Valerio Cerantola, corresponding author and postdoctoral scientist at the ESRF, at ESRF ID27 high pressure beamline.Credit: ESRF
Examining conditions within the Earth's interior is crucial not only to give us a window back to Earth's history but also to understand...
New research suggests that the Hiawatha impact crater beneath ice could have been formed during the Pleistocene geological epoch. The 31-kilometer-wide crater first came to the world's attention in 2018 when a team led by the University of Copenhagen published research revealing its existence.
Hidden beneath...
This is a stream draining a forested watershed at Hubbard Brook.Credit: Claire Nemes
A legacy of acid rain has acidified forest soils throughout the northeastern US, lowering the growth rate of trees. In an attempt to mitigate this trend, in...
This composite color full-disk visible image of the Western Hemisphere was captured from NOAA GOES-16 satellite at 1:07 pm EST on Jan. 15, 2017 and created using several of the 16 spectral channels available on the satellite's sophisticated Advanced...
In a study that gives new meaning to the term "rock bottom," seismic researchers have discovered the underside of a rocky slab of Earth's surface layer, or lithosphere, that has been pulled more than 400 miles beneath northeastern China...
An artist's rendering shows a laser beam from a satellite-mounted LIDAR instrument probing the plankton-rich waters of Earth's northern and southern oceans. Credit: Tim Marvel, NASA
A space-based sensor that can "see" through fog, clouds and darkness has given scientists...
We and all other animals wouldn't be here today if our planet didn't have a lot of oxygen in its atmosphere and oceans. But how crucial were high oxygen levels to the transition from simple, single-celled life forms to...
A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) offers a twist on a popular theory for how life on Earth began about four billion years ago.
The study questions the "RNA world" hypothesis, a theory for...
New findings suggest the ancient Earth harbored a mantle that was much more efficient at drawing down pieces of the planet’s crust.
Credit: MIT News
Plate tectonics has shaped...
Sifting through diamond exploration samples from Baffin Island, Canadian scientists have identified a new remnant of the North Atlantic craton—an ancient part of Earth's continental crust.
A chance discovery by geologists poring over diamond exploration samples has led to a...
Ancient turkey DNA used to tracks migration of Mesa Verde Pueblo people from southwest Colorado.
Credit: National Park Service
Ancient DNA used to track the mass exodus of Ancestral Pueblo people from Colorado's Mesa Verde region in the late 13th century...
