Bang! A new moon crater appeared between Oct. 25, 2012, and April 21, 2013. At 12 meters (40 feet) wide, the crater is not hard to spot in the image, but the starburst pattern of ejected debris is elusive...
Will virtual reality rob future students of the awe and wonder naturalists experience when exploring nature?
Virtual reality has nothing on nature. Just ask the UC Santa Barbara students who one recent day trekked to a forest before dawn to...
AWARE instruments at the WAIS Divide field camp in central West Antarctica in December 2015 under a spectacular optical display ("sun dog") due to atmospheric ice crystals.
Credit: Colin Jenkinson, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
An area of West Antarctica more than...
This is a map of recent Hawaiian volcanism, highlighting the Loa and Kea tracks.
Credit: Tim Jones, ANU
A study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has solved the 168-year-old mystery of how the world's biggest and most active volcanoes...
The metal-organic framework is set up like a sandwich (a). The molecular textile layer is woven in an active layer that is embedded between so-called sacrificial layers (b).
Credit: KIT
Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have made major progress...
Aberration-corrected HAADF/STEM images of as-synthesized Rh-ZSM-5. Single rhodium cations are circled in white with proposed ball-stick model of the structure.
Credit: Lawrence F. Allard, co-author and researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The direct oxidation of methane -- found in natural...
This is a damselfish of the Chromis species.
Credit: Jacob Johansen/Univ. of Texas at Austin
Just as one too many cocktails can lead a person to make bad choices, a few drops of oil can cause coral reef fish to make...
Model of an island volcano. During the last transition to glacial conditions the decreasing pressure at the seafloor could have induced increased lava- and carbon dioxide emissions.
Credit: Jörg Hasenclever
Climate evolution shows some regularities, which can be traced throughout long...
Remnant of a street in the urban centre of Kalibangan. The Ghaggar-Hakra palaeochannel can be seen in the distance.
Credit: S. Gupta (Imperial College London)
The Indus or Harappan Civilisation was a Bronze Age society that developed mainly in the northwestern...
Hard tick grasping a dinosaur feather preserved in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber. Modified from the open access article published in Nature Communications: 'Ticks parasitised feathered dinosaurs as revealed by Cretaceous amber assemblages.'
Credit: Paper authors.
Fossilised ticks discovered trapped and preserved...
Using fluorescent lights, Kerry Sieh and Charles Rubin of the Earth Observatory of Singapore look for charcoal and shells for radiocarbon dating.
Credit: Earth Observatory of Singapore
An international team of scientists digging in a sea cave in Indonesia has discovered...
