6+ hour, 20+ min ago  (812+ words) At depths below 1, 000 kilometers in Earth's mantle, pressures exceed 1 million atmospheres, temperatures are hotter than lava at the surface, and rocks behave in ways that defy intuition. Recently, researchers discovered a distinct fourth contributor to mantle heterogeneities'one that arises from…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (320+ words) Map of the Aleutian Arc in Alaska and the Andreanof study area. The lower map shows where ocean-bottom seismometers and land seismic stations recorded sound waves from an active-source seismic experiment conducted aboard the R/V Marcus G. Langseth, allowing the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (144+ words) Multi-Scale Fault Roughness Encapsulated in a Friction Law eos. org Earthquakes release energy and result in source properties defined across a wide range of scales that are not represented in conventional frictional laws. Norisugi and Noda [2026] introduce a new rate…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (724+ words) I've just always felt like art and science are flip sides of the same coin." Scientists use tools ranging from models to microscopes to make sense of the world around them. Some might say artists do the same thing using…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (327+ words) A storm approaches Cape Shirreff in Antarctica. Credit: Ray Buchheit, NOAA NMFS SWFSC Antarctic Marine Living Resources Program/Flickr, CC BY 2. 0 Atmospheric rivers act like "rivers in the sky," shuttling intense bands of warm, heavy moisture from lower to higher…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (383+ words) (a) Map view of the Gonghe Basin. The upper left inset shows the location of the Gonghe Basin in the broader Tibetan Plateau (red square). Cyan circles show epicenters of earthquakes during January 2009 July 2021 collected from the National Earthquake Data Center…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (310+ words) A hole in the Montreal Protocol could delay the recovery of Earth's ozone layer by about 7 years. New research found that the use of ozone-depleting substances used as feedstocks'chemicals used in the making of other chemicals'has not waned over time....

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (959+ words) The weirdest volcano in the world may be Tanzania's towering Ol Doinyo Lengai, an active peak that squeezes out a strange, low-temperature lava called carbonatite. Carbonatites are composed of more than 50% carbonate minerals, the same substances that form the ocean's…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (442+ words) Stretching and Squeezing Release Glacial Meltwater eos. org As meltwater drains through and beneath a glacier, it can alter how the ice flows and whether it breaks apart. Meltwater can also cause feedbacks that lead to more ice loss. Understanding…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (231+ words) Shuo Zheng, a hydrological geodesist at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in China, and his colleagues recently mined some of those Mount Fuji data. The team focused on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) observations'otherwise known as GPS data'collected daily from 2017 to…...