“This dataset is being used to make digital elevation and terrain maps that will be a fundamental reference for future scientific and human exploration…
The data providing the insight into the mountains – so popularly renowned for durability – came from one of the most ephemeral of sources: raindrops. Or more…
A complete, 50-foot-long skeleton of the extinct whale Basilosaurus isis, which lived 37 million years ago, now is suspended from the ceiling of the museum's…
A University of California, Berkeley, geophysicist has made the first-ever measurement of the strength of the magnetic field inside Earth's core, 1,800 miles…
Dissolved organic carbon can react with chlorine during water treatment and form halogenated compounds, commonly referred to as disinfection byproducts. Some…
The results of their research were presented today at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. The National Nuclear Security…
Thunderstorms can bring intense rain, hail, lightning and even tornadoes, but “predicting them a few hours out is one of the great problems of meteorology,”…
Polar bears were added to the threatened species list nearly three years ago when their icy habitat showed steady, precipitous decline because of a warming…
Initial research was focused on classifying the meteorite fragments that were collected two to five months after they were strewn across the desert and tracked…
The study, led by the U.S. Geological Survey, included university and other federal agency scientists. The research broke new ground in the “tipping point”…
Marine mammalogist and first author Brendan Kelly of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s marine mammal lab in Juneau, with conservation…
The island is part of the Hanford Reservation, which is managed by the Department of Energy. So the DOE has turned to a team of researchers headed by David…
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, designed to image the invisible interactions occurring at the edge of the solar system, captured…
New technology is letting University of Washington researchers get a much better picture of how these episodic tremor events relate to potentially catastrophic…
Fog formation appears to be controlled by a high-pressure system normally present off the West Coast throughout the summer, said James Johnstone, a…
The finding could help scientists predict when Hawaiian volcanoes are going to erupt. It also suggests that Hawaii holds great potential for thermal energy.Julie Ditkof, an honors undergraduate student in earth sciences at Ohio State, described the study at the American Geophysical Union Meeting in San Francisco on Tuesday, December 14….
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