Carbon in the fluid of the Earth’s mantle is not in the form of carbon dioxide but rather in carbonate and bicarbonate ions, researchers found. Credit: Prof. Giulia Galli, et al.
Understanding how carbon dissolves in water at the molecular...
Cerro Uturuncu volcano in the Bolivian Altiplano. Credit: Jon Blundy - University of Bristol
Scientists from the University of Bristol and partner universities in Germany, France, Canada and Wales, have discovered a huge magmatic lake, 15 kilometres below a dormant...
RainCube, due to fly in 2017, forced JPL's engineers to get creative in order to squeeze an antenna into a CubeSat. Credit: Tyvak/Jonathan Sauder/NASA/JPL-Caltech
Black magic.
That's what radiofrequency engineers call the mysterious forces guiding communications over the air. These forces...
The GRAPES-3 muon telescope, the largest and most sensitive cosmic ray monitor recorded a burst of galactic cosmic rays that indicated a crack in the Earth's magnetic shield Credit: TIFR
The GRAPES-3 muon telescope, the largest and most sensitive cosmic...
At the Colorado River delta, cheniers of dead clam shells epitomize the carbon dioxide being added to the atmosphere upstream.Credit: Jansen Smith/Provided
Scientists have begun to account for the topsy-turvy carbon cycle of the Colorado River delta -- once a...
Damage caused by the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. Credit:Flickr/Jasperdo
Historical sleuthing has turned up evidence for a possible link between oil production and a handful of damaging earthquakes that took place in the Los Angeles Basin during its oil boom...
Image Credit:Flickr/declanjewell
Significant changes in the distribution of plants on Earth can be a reality by 2050. The prediction is made by scientists from Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate at the University of Copenhagen, based on fossilized pollen. The...
Cloud Experiment. View inside the chamber.Credit: CERN PhotoLab
In a study led by the University of Leeds, scientists have solved one of the most long-standing challenges in atmospheric science: to understand how particles are formed in the atmosphere.
The research paper,...
Lavezzi Island (Corsica, France). Credit: Daniel Pavon, IMBE, Aix Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France
Southern Spain will become desert and deciduous forests will vanish from much of the Mediterranean basin unless global warming is reined in sharply, according to a...
Long-standing recycling of ancient sulfur in billion-year-old rocks supplies energy to terrestrial deep subsurface biosphere and sheds insights into search for life on Mars
To the naked eye, ancient rocks may look completely inhospitable, but in reality, they can sustain...
Meteosat-1 imagery from 4 February, 1979. Credit: European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)
Serendipity, expertise, foresight and the equivalent of an Earth observation data archaeological dig have led to recovery of almost-40-year-old satellite imagery - thought...
