Earth’s climate balance isn’t just governed by the slow weathering of silicate rocks, which capture carbon and stabilize temperature over eons. New research reveals that biological and oceanic ...

Earth’s magnetosphere, once thought to have a simple electric polarity pattern, has revealed a surprising twist. New ...

UC researchers have devised a first-of-its-kind study to measure the carbon sequestered by enhanced rock weathering, a ...

Live Science said. At magnitude 26, the asteroid appears quite dim and it's small, too, with a width of 62 feet. In August ...

Earth has entered a grim new climate reality. The planet has officially passed its first climate tipping point. Relentlessly rising heat in the oceans has now pushed corals around the world past their ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Just like Earth’s severe thunderstorms, solar storms can cause ...

A developing pyrocumulonimbus cloud above Oregon's Gulch Fire, part of the Beaver Complex Fire, in 2014. On September 5, 2020, California’s Creek Fire grew so severe that it began producing it’s own ...

AFTER THE second world war, Leo Szilard, a pioneering nuclear physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project, decided to move into biology instead: life; not death. But there was a problem. As a ...

The Moon is rusting — and it’s Earth’s fault. Scientists have found that oxygen particles blown from Earth to the Moon can turn lunar minerals into haematite, also known as rust. The discovery adds to ...

THE PROMISE at the heart of the artificial-intelligence (AI) boom is that programming a computer is no longer an arcane skill: a chatbot or large language model (LLM) can be instructed in simple ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. In 2008, Steve became the Earth Observing System (EOS) Senior Project Scientist. In this role, he led the EOS Project ...