This is an image of Mt St. Helens in Washington State, USA, which erupted in 1980, killing 57 people.
Credit: S Brown
It is hoped the findings, published recently in the Journal of Applied Volcanology, will help increase our understanding of...
Rapa Nui National Park on Easter Island.
Credit: © Bryan Busovicki / Fotolia
Easter Island is a place of mystery that has captured the public imagination. Famous for ancient carved statues and a location so remote it boggles the mind, the...
The Eridania basin of southern Mars is believed to have held a sea about 3.7 billion years ago, with seafloor deposits likely resulting from underwater hydrothermal activity.
Credit: NASA
The discovery of evidence for ancient sea-floor hydrothermal deposits on Mars identifies...
This artist's depiction shows a gas giant planet rising over the horizon of an alien waterworld. New research shows that oceans on super-Earths, once established, can last for billions of years.
Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA)
For life as we know...
Detail of one of the burials from Sunghir, in Russia. The new study sequenced the genomes of individuals from the site and discovered that they were, at most, second cousins, indicating that they had developed sexual partnerships beyond their...
A map of the percentage change in the amount of moderate turbulence by the period 2050-2080 at 39,000 feet in altitude in Autumn (September, October, November) in North America.
Credit: Paul Williams
Flights all around the world could be encountering lots...
This is a cast of a P. boisei skull, used for teaching at Cambridge University
Credit: Louise Walsh
Two herpes simplex viruses infect primates from unknown evolutionary depths. In modern humans these viruses manifest as cold sores (HSV1) and genital herpes...
The latest false-color view of total ozone over the Antarctic pole, as of June 26, 2017. The purple and blue colors are where there is the least ozone, and the yellows and reds are where there is more ozone.
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This is an illustration of the new species, Uromys vika.
Credit: Velizar Simeonovski, The Field Museum
Remember the movie The Princess Bride, when the characters debate the existence of R.O.U.S.es (Rodents of Unusual Size), only to be beset by enormous rats?...
People suffering from a fear of heights experience the anxiety also in virtual reality – even though they are aware that they are not really in a dangerous situation.
Credit: VTPlus
It is possible to unlearn fears. And this works even...
Coral bleaching.
Credit: © Richard Carey / Fotolia
In the past 540 million years, the Earth has endured five mass extinction events, each involving processes that upended the normal cycling of carbon through the atmosphere and oceans. These globally fatal perturbations...
