Sediment cores were collected from Pine Island Bay in West Antarctica using the German research vessel RV Polarstern.
Credit: James Smith @ British Antarctic Survey
Reporting in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS)...
Artist's conceptions of the most-distant supermassive black hole ever discovered, which is part of a quasar from just 690 million years after the Big Bang. It is surrounded by neutral hydrogen, indicating that it is from the period called...
Flood of Genova, November 2011.
Credit: © fotonazario / Fotolia
Losses from extreme floods in Europe could more than double by 2050, because of climate change and socioeconomic development. Understanding the risk posed by large-scale floods is of growing importance and...
The research team camped in these tents near the drill site in Antarctica.
Credit: Reed Scherer
Lurking in a lake half a mile beneath Antarctica's icy surface, methane-eating microbes may mitigate the release of this greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as...
Due to its breadth, the Jena experiment proves for the first time that a loss of biodiversity has negative consequences for many individual components and processes in ecosystems.
Credit: Photo: The Jena Experiment
How serious is the loss of species globally?...
Nelson Sepulveda is a nanotechnology researcher and associate professor of engineering at Michigan State University.
Credit: Michigan State University
A paper-thin, flexible device created at Michigan State University not only can generate energy from human motion, it can act as a...
Helobdella robusta, a tiny freshwater leech that attacks and kills snails.
Credit: Photo by Ajna S. Rievra/UC Berkeley
Leeches, despite the yuck factor, have captured the hearts of two University of California, Berkeley, scientists who are part of a team...
This image depicts a trap nest containing a mason wasp (Antherhynchium flavomarginatum) pupa, left; and a mason wasp larva, right, that has been parasitized by the larva of the wasp parasitoid Lycogaster violaceipennis.
Credit: Felix Fornoff, University of Freiburg
Like a...
The naked HIV capsid, left, would be quickly detected and eliminated from the cell, but a host protein, cyclophilin A, in red in the image on the right, binds to the capsid and enables it to transit through the...
Current coral bleaching in Fiji.
Credit: Professor Peter J Mumby, University of Queensland
Geoengineering of the climate may be the only way to save coral reefs from mass bleaching, according to new research.
Coral reefs are considered one of the most vulnerable...
From left, geology graduate students Jiashun Hu and Quan Zhou and professor Lijun Liu challenge traditional theories about western US volcanism with new evidence from supercomputer modeling.
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer
Recent stories in the national media are magnifying fears of...
