Researchers analyzing ancient seafloor sediments discovered that West Antarctica’s ice sheet has collapsed and regrown several times over millions of years — triggering earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, and tsunamis each time.
Since it landed on Mars on February 18, 2021, NASA has kept its Perseverance rover busy gathering data and collecting important samples across various regions of the Red Planet. The agency recently released an update on its upcoming plans for the…
The July morning had dawned crystal clear, so the perfect symmetry of Mount Taygetos stood out with unusual clarity from the barren landscape, says Ben Aldiss. The stunning blue waters of the gulf barely stirred under the cloudless skies – it…
Researchers at the University of St Andrews have uncovered a long‑elusive molecular ‘reshuffle’, a breakthrough that tackles one of chemistry’s most persistent challenges and could transform the way medicines are…
Peter Brannen started investigating the history of carbon dioxide, but ended up uncovering the story of everything.
Award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen, BC ’06, published his most recent book, The Story of CO₂ Is…
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) — NASA launched a new satellite mission into low Earth orbit on Sunday to study the atmospheres of exoplanets and their host stars.
The mission, codenamed Pandora, lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at…
An iceberg that calved from the Antarctic ice sheet in 1986 is dramatically turning blue as it rapidly heads towards total annihilation.
Earth satellites that have been monitoring iceberg A-23A over decades show that, in a very short space of…
In the world of quantum physics, incredible events unfold at mind-boggling speeds. Processes thought to happen instantaneously, like quantum entanglement, are now being directly measured in the tiniest fractions of a second – attoseconds.
It’s…