The lava-making furnace, viewed from above. Credit: Douglas Levere
How do you make your own lava?
Dump 10 gallons of basaltic rock into a high-powered induction furnace. Let it heat up for 3 or 4 hours. Stir occasionally with a steel...
Human use of artificial light is causing Spring to come at least a week early in the UK, researchers at the University of Exeter in Cornwall have found.
New research led by a team of biologists based at the University's...
Approximately 500,000 years after the major natural disaster at the boundary between the Permian and the Triassic another event altered the vegetation fundamentally and for longer.Credit: Graphic UZH
There have been several mass extinctions in the history of Earth with...
Tropical Cyclone 02A developed in the Northern Indian Ocean's Arabian Sea as NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead and analyzed the storm in infrared light and NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible look at the storm.
On June 26, at the...
This image shows the California Aqueduct, with the Lost Hills Oil Field in the background.Credit: Rob Jackson, Stanford University
California's drought-stricken Central Valley harbors three times more groundwater than previously estimated, Stanford scientists have found. Accessing this water in an...
Cutaway of the Earth's surface, down to the liquid core. A numerical convection experiment shows blobs in green, surrounding mantle rock in blue, and former oceanic crust from the surface that has subducted into the interior in yellow.Credit: Dr....
This is an illustration of ancient Earth's magnetic field compared to the modern magnetic field courtesy of Peter Driscoll. Credit: Peter Driscoll
New work from Carnegie's Peter Driscoll suggests Earth's ancient magnetic field was significantly different than the present day...
A new study shows that the flora of the Northern Russian permafrost lags behind the climate often by several thousand years. Credit: © Klim Savchenkov / Flickr
The Siberian permafrost regions include those areas of Earth, which heat up very...
The Tilca volcano in Nicaragua is erupting. Credit: Diana Roman
When dormant volcanoes are about to erupt, they show some predictive characteristics--seismic activity beneath the volcano starts to increase, gas escapes through the vent, or the surrounding ground starts to...
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...
Mt Isto, the tallest peak in the US Arctic, shown as a 3-D visualization of fodar data. Yellow dots indicate position of some of the ground control GPS data collected during the climbing expedition. Closely spaced points are on...
