Freak waves are so called because of their unexpectedly large size relative to the population of smaller waves in which they occur. The 84-foot- (25.6...
On Sunday, December 16, 2018, comet 46P/Wirtanen will make a close pass of Earth. The comet will be at its closest distance to our planet in over four...
Approximately 2.6 million years ago (Pliocene epoch), a tsunami of cosmic energy from a massive supernova or a series of them about 150 light-years away...
Some 252 million years ago, intense volcanic activity belched massive volumes of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere and triggered rapid changes to the...
An international collaboration of researchers from the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) has made several important discoveries, including how much and what...
Volcanoes are not fed by liquid magma formed in large, underground caves called ‘magma’ chambers; instead, they are fed by so-called ‘mush’ reservoirs...
Levels of exposure to outdoor air pollution among children with intellectual disabilities are significantly higher than those of children without intellectual...
NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission consists of four identical spacecraft that orbit around Earth through the dynamic magnetic system surrounding...
Kerogen is a waxy, insoluble organic substance dispersed in sedimentary rocks and is the precursor of oil and gas. In a new study, published in the Proceedings...
A new study, published in the Astrophysical Journal, suggests that if a 1- to 2-megawatt (MW) laser were focused through a 30- to 45-m telescope and aimed...
It is no secret that climate change and environmental negligence have been worsened by human activity and accelerated industrialization over the past century,...
A research team from Hungary has confirmed the existence of two enigmatic celestial objects called Kordylewski dust clouds (KDCs) — large concentrations...
An international team of researchers from the United States, Taiwan and France provides new evidence that phosphates — a key element in the building...
New research overturns previous scientific beliefs that Earth’s tectonic plates were developed over the course of billions of years.
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The first complex organisms emerged during the Ediacaran period (635-541 million years ago). Ediacaran fossils are as ‘strange as life on another planet’...
A team of cartographers and researchers from the University of Minnesota and the Ohio State University has produced a high-resolution terrain map of Antarctica...
New research from the Universities of Bristol and Bath suggests life originated on our planet a lot earlier than previously thought.
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Recently, the scientific community stumbled upon a rare atmospheric phenomenon called Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement (STEVE) that has been...
A big earthquake can not only cause other quakes, but large ones, and on the opposite side of our planet, according to new research from Oregon State University.
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Blue (type IIb) diamonds owe their color to boron, an element abundant in the Earth’s continental and oceanic crust. According to new research led by...
