Found in the remote desert near the town of Marree in northern South Australia, the fossilised skeleton belonged to an ichthyosaur, a dolphin-like marine…
Together with Terry Callaghan, a researcher at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Margareta is the editor of the two chapters on snow and permafrost. “The…
This economic analysis is based on a 2010 USGS resource assessment that determined how much undiscovered, conventional oil and gas in the NPRA is technically…
Together with Terry Callaghan, a researcher at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Margareta is the editor of the two chapters on snow and permafrost. “The…
An ancient, bipedal hominid needs a new nickname. Paranthropus boisei, a 2.3 million to 1.2 million-year-old primate, whom researchers say is an early human…
An international team of scientists report on the first observatory experiment to study the dynamic microbial life of an ever-changing environment inside…
Their report — the first analysis of long-term stability of wind over the U.S. — appears in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early…
BU College of Arts & Sciences Paleoclimatologist Maureen Raymo and colleagues published findings that should help scientists better estimate the level of sea…
Using state-of-the-art technology, the scientists have been able to link proteinaceous molecules to bone matrix fibres isolated from a 70-million-year-old…
TRMM, a satellite managed by both NASA and the Japanese Space Agency, captured the rainfall rates occurring in the line of thunderstorms associated with a…
Reporting in the April 28 issue of the journal Nature, the eight-member team reports that uplift occurred as bottom portions of the lithosphere — the upper…
This field campaign provides the most comprehensive observations of rainfall in the U.S. through the use of aircraft, spacecraft, remote sensing and ground…
After two years of testing water samples across the Arctic Ocean, the researchers found that relatively harmless inorganic mercury, released from human…
What's unusual about the system is that there are a handful of days where a “high risk” for severe weather is noted by NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory…
Exotic bacteria that do not rely on oxygen may have played an important role in determining the composition of Earth’s early atmosphere, according to a theory…
This month, in “Tracking Trace Elements and Isotopes in the Oceans,” we follow up with Jacquot as he details the highs, lows and initial findings from the…
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