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The 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption produced the largest underwater explosion ever recorded by modern instruments. Its plume climbed approximately 57 kilometres—higher than any volcanic plume observed during the satellite era—and injected enough water vapour to increase the stratosphere’s global water content by roughly 10%.
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1530+ words) The Hunga Tonga eruption set distinct records in atmospheric pressure, plume height and stratospheric water. The instruments behind each number reveal why the event was so unusual. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 24, 2026 · How we edit…...
In 2011 the Netherlands dumped twenty one and a half million cubic meters of sand into the sea in one enormous pile, and let wind and tide spread it into new coastline for the next twenty years instead of trucking sand in every few years
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (118+ words) In 2011, engineers piled 21.5 million cubic metres of sand into a single peninsula off the Dutch coast and then largely left it alone, betting that wind, waves, and currents would spread it into new coastline over the next twenty years. By…...
A meteorite that fell near the Australian town of Murchison in 1969 was found to contain grains of stardust up to around 7 billion years old — the oldest solid material ever identified on Earth, formed long before the Sun or planets existed.
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (28+ words) A stone that fell from the sky over rural Victoria in 1969 turned out to contain something older than Earth, older than the Sun and older than every...
Beneath a field of loose rubble on Utah’s Mount Timpanogos, scientists mapped a hidden mass of ice up to 150 feet thick — enough frozen water to fill 600 Olympic swimming pools
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (765+ words) Massive ice deposits hidden beneath Utah mountain rubble could reshape understanding of water resources and climate patterns in the American West. By Natural History · Edited by Daniel Moran Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit A field of loose rubble under the…...
How did hunter-gatherers in southeastern Anatolia quarry, carve, and raise 20-tonne T-shaped limestone pillars into ringed enclosures roughly 6,000 years before Stonehenge, without metal tools or the wheel?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (510+ words) At Göbekli Tepe, hunter-gatherers raised 20-tonne T-shaped limestone pillars into ringed enclosures around 9600 BCE — 6,000 years before Stonehenge — using flint tools, wooden sledges, log rollers, ropes, and coordinated labour. Here is how the mechanics actually worked. By Science Blog Editorial Team…...
We’re travelling around Queensland and the water in this tiny outback town smells rather strange — but the science of what’s happening 500 metres beneath our feet is fascinating
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (1425+ words) Published September 7, 2026 · How we edit We’re travelling around Queensland at the moment, and one of the things I love about travelling this way is that you never quite know what is going to make you curious. Sometimes it’s the landscape....
Scientists sent robots more than two kilometres beneath the Pacific and mapped enormous lava fields around an active volcano — revealing how molten rock once pooled, swelled beneath a hardened crust and burst outward to reshape the ocean floor
1+ week, 5+ day ago (684+ words) The ocean floor's violent geology remains largely hidden—until robotic expeditions reveal how molten rock sculpts the seafloor in ways that challenge what we thought we knew about underwater volcanism. Published August 31, 2026 · How we edit Two kilometres under the Pacific,…...
Roughly five and a half million years ago the Mediterranean dried up almost entirely, and when the Atlantic finally broke back through at Gibraltar it may have refilled the whole basin in only a few years.
2+ mon, 12+ hour ago (283+ words) The Mediterranean looks permanent because human history is short. Rome, Alexandria, Athens, Carthage and Istanbul all belong to a sea that seems older...
Scientists drilling through Antarctic ice pulled up a core containing air bubbles trapped 800,000 years ago, before modern humans existed, before agriculture, before written language — and the ancient air was still sealed inside
2+ week, 1+ day ago (429+ words) Three kilometres under the East Antarctic plateau sits air that nobody has ever breathed. Published August 28, 2026 · How we edit Three kilometres under the East Antarctic plateau sits air that nobody has ever breathed. It fell as snow around 800,000 years ago,…...
Archaeologists found a 1,200-year-old island in Fiji made almost entirely of discarded shellfish — created by generations of people processing food during the same centuries Maya cities flourished and Viking voyagers began crossing the North Atlantic
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (548+ words) Accumulating shellfish refuse transformed a Fijian shoreline into solid ground, revealing how ordinary people across the Pacific engineered their landscape one meal at a time. Published September 6, 2026 · How we edit A thousand years of lunch has been sitting off the…...