This is a map depicting apple's ancient journey along the Silk Road.
Credit: Alexa M Schmitz/Yang Bai
Centuries ago, the ancient networks of the Silk Road facilitated a political and economic openness between the nations of Eurasia. But this network also...
Magetic field model/Magnetic anomaly.
Credit: ESA
Satellites have been mapping the upper part of the Earth magnetic field by collecting data for three years and found some amazing features about the Earth's crust. The result is the release of highest resolution...
Artist's rendering of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2, one of five new NASA Earth science missions set to launch in 2014, and one of three managed by JPL.
Credit: NASA-JPL/Caltech
NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to measuring carbon dioxide levels in Earth's...
This is a an artist's reconstruction of Aquilops in its environment in ancient Montana
Credit: Copyright Brian Engh, courtesy of Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology; CC-BY
Scientists have named the first definite horned dinosaur species from the Early Cretaceous in...
Life reconstruction of the newly discovered Latenivenatrix mcmasterae by Julius Csotonyi.
Credit: Julius Csotonyi
New research from University of Alberta paleontologists shows one of North America's most broadly identified dinosaur species, Troodon formosus, is no longer a valid classification, naming two...
This is a life recreation of Albertavenator curriei.
Credit: Illustrated by Oliver Demuth. © Oliver Demuth
Scientists from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the Philip J Currie Dinosaur Museum have identified and named a new species of dinosaur in honour...
Ocean wave (stock image). Today, deep waters formed in the northern North Atlantic fill approximately half of the deep ocean globally. In the process, this helps moderate the effects of global warming. Changes in this...
Icebergs.
Credit: © cherylvb / Fotolia
Arctic sea ice is not merely a passive responder to the climate changes occurring around the world, according to new research.
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Associate professor BK Song of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science collects water samples for analysis of nitrogen and microbes.
Credit: © D. Malmquist/VIMS.
Those concerned with water quality...
This image, from a computerized simulation, shows the formation of an inner disk of matter and a wide, hot disk of matter 5.5 milliseconds after the merger of a neutron star and a black hole.
Credit: Classical and Quantum Gravity
Now...
New research from an international team of atmospheric scientists investigates for the first time the possibility of using a "cocktail" of geoengineering tools to reduce changes in both temperature and precipitation caused by atmospheric greenhouse gases.
Credit: Illustration courtesy of...
