Four UCLA faculty members were named 2020 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
If you want to understand a part of Earth’s galactic history—whether it passed near a supernova during its path around our galaxy, for example—you may be able to find the answer in the crystal structure of a rock, according to a University of Michigan study.
A team of geologists used advanced tomography and computer computation to reconstruct a map of the tectonic plates from that early period and identify a missing plate that fits neatly between two plates known today.
Alleging a secretive, clandestine cabal has been conspiring to prevent politicians from taking decisive action to save the planet from impending doom, Brown University recently launched the Climate Social Science Network to track down and expose the conspiracy their scholars have theorized exists.
An advanced fission plant concept design developed by a California-based company is the type of "microreactor" that could lead to replacing fossil fuels and huge nuclear power plants, an international power agency recently reported.
Over the summer, the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering launched a study to determine how events such as climate disasters, oil spills, and long-term environmental changes are affecting environmental restoration projects in the Gulf of Mexico.
James “Doc” McFadden, who passed away on Sept. 28, spent most of his life with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for longest career as a hurricane hunter, flying his first mission to Hurricane Inez in 1966, and his final flight to Hurricane Jerry in 2019 when he was 85 years old.
The Colorado School of Mines ranks as number 3 of the 10 "elite " energy schools, among the 187 U.S. universities surveyed by the American Energy Society (AES) this year.
Temperatures at Earth’s highest latitudes were nearly as warm after Antarctica’s polar ice sheets developed as they were prior to glaciation, according to a new study led by Yale University.
Scientists at an “earthquake laboratory at CalTech increased the knowledge of the physics of friction that drive thrust-fault earthquakes, often the world’s largest quakes.
Researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of Chicago have determined in a study published in The Planetary Science Journal that some planets may shine bright like diamonds because they are, in fact, diamonds.
New evidence uncovered in Laos may lend understanding to a possible connection between the end of the Green Sahara and a crippling megadrought that struck Southeast Asia between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago.
From a chance glance by a hiker on a storied Grand Canyon trail, a paleontologist and colleagues managed to trace the footsteps of an animal that lived more than 300 million years ago, and unearth a previously unknown — and surprising — evolutionary quirk.
A study published in the journal PLOS One describes how researchers in Australia discovered the country’s first underwater archaeological sites, which included more than 260 "lithic artefacts" found 2.4 meters below sea level at Cape Bruguieres, as well as a submerged freshwater spring 14 meters down at Flying Foam Passage.
University of California, Riverside researchers have discovered that, during photosynthesis, plants can protect themselves from solar surges and achieve near quantum efficiency when converting light into energy by absorbing specific colors of light.
The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment found a connection between air pollution and infant mortality, a Stanford news release states.
More than 250 million years ago, the biggest extinction event ever occurred – it’s called The Great Dying.
Scientists will recalibrate a key tool in determining how old a preshistoric sample is in the coming months.
Geophysicists at Yale University have found that the earth's tectonic plates are more than 4 billion years old, YaleNews reported.
Geologists look at the formations they study as similar to an encyclopedia, a record that explains things that have happened.