CAMPBELL LAKE, Fla. — Emily Elliott was searching the water for something precious. Elliott, a University of Alabama scientist who studies ancient hurricanes, came to this Gulf Coast lake to sediment that could unlock the secrets of violent storms of the past—and offer a glimpse of future storms as Earth’s climate warms. Aboard a small … Read more
A stunning new place has been discovered, hidden deep beneath the ocean waves of the Arctic Circle. Off the coast of Svalbard, Norway, more than 3,000 meters (9,842 feet) below, a field of hydrothermal vents unfolds along Knipovich Ridge, an underwater mountain range previously thought to be quite inconspicuous. Instead, like underfloor heating, volcanic activity … Read more
This year’s Asteroid Day has events planned including one at the Skyland Lodge Conference Center in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park at 9pm on Sunday. June 30, 2015, was the first “Asteroid Day” – a “global awareness movement where people from all over the world come together to learn about asteroids and what we can do … Read more
Scientists have identified and named over a million species of animals, and there are millions more to be discovered on Earth’s seven continents. But which continent has the most animal species? For hundreds of years, scientists have cataloged and geolocated species across the globe. Before the digital age, most of our information about species distributions … Read more
California vehicle emissions have fallen steadily over the years as environmental policies and advanced technology clean up traffic emissions. However, since 2010, microscopic air particles and ground-level ozone have stubbornly refused to fall thanks to the rise of ‘secondary sources’ – many of which are the trees and shrubs that line our city streets. To … Read more
Meteors along the Milky Way in the sky on August 05, 2021 at Lake Porma, Leon, Spain. (Photo from … [+] (Samuel de Roman/Getty Images) Getty Images July is packed with celestial events for stargazers, from the breathtaking view of the Milky Way in the first week, to a beautiful crescent moon lighting up the … Read more
A discovered black hole lurking in the Cosmic Dawn is too big to be easily explained. Sitting at the center of a galaxy called J1120 + 0641, it tips the scales at the mass of a billion Suns. Supermassive black holes exist all around us today. The problem is when of the existence of J1120+0641. … Read more
Asteroid samples collected from Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission have revealed fascinating details about the early solar system and the history of water in space. These samples, the largest ever returned to Earth by an asteroid, are providing scientists with invaluable data on conditions and processes that existed billions of years ago. Significance of the … Read more
University of Glasgow Techniques developed to analyze the ripples in space-time detected by one of the most sensitive pieces of scientific equipment of the 21st century have helped shed new light on the function of the oldest known analog computer. Astronomers from the University of Glasgow have used statistical modeling techniques developed to analyze gravitational … Read more
NASA’s Odyssey spacecraft, the longest mission to Mars, circled the Red Planet for the 100,000th time today, the mission team announced in a STATEMENT. To celebrate the milestone, the space agency released an intricate panorama of Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system; Odyssey captured the view in March. The base of the … Read more