1+ week, 2+ day ago  (860+ words) For more than two centuries, scientists tried and failed to grow dolomite in the lab under conditions thought to match how it forms in nature. A recent study has finally changed that. Researchers from the University of Michigan and Hokkaido…...

9+ mon, 18+ hour ago  (789+ words) Upon re-examining the cranial musculature of the African coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), the authors discovered that only 13% of the previously identified evolutionary muscle novelties for the largest vertebrate lineages were accurate. The study also identified nine new evolutionary transformations related to…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (731+ words) A glacier on Antarctica's Eastern Peninsula underwent the most rapid retreat seen in modern times. In only two months, nearly half of Hektoria Glacier broke apart and disappeared. The findings could help scientists pinpoint other Antarctic glaciers that might be…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (351+ words) By reexamining rock samples returned by the Apollo missions, the team found evidence that the Moon did experience periods of extremely strong magnetism, at times even surpassing Earth's. However, these intense phases were rare and brief. For most of its…...

6+ mon, 3+ day ago  (334+ words) How do volcanoes function beneath their rocky surfaces? What drives the rumbling vibrations, called tremor, that occur when molten rock or gases travel upward through underground channels? Professor Dr. Miriam Christina Reiss, a volcano seismologist at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (523+ words) Scientists studying rare rocks buried deep beneath central Australia have uncovered how one of the world's most promising new sources of niobium came to be. Niobium is a critical metal used to strengthen steel and support clean energy technologies, and…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (900+ words) The findings were detailed in the journal Geology by a research team led by "lvaro Penteado Cr'sta, a geologist and senior professor at the Institute of Geosciences at the State University of Campinas (IG-UNICAMP). The project involved collaborators from Brazil,…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (728+ words) Researchers at the University of Southampton have found new evidence that Earth's climate did not completely grind to a halt during its most extreme ice age, a time often called Snowball Earth. This dramatic chapter unfolded during the Cryogenian Period,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (471+ words) Why Lithium Demand Is Surging To address this, scientists are beginning to look beyond conventional mining. One promising idea is to recover lithium from materials left behind by past industrial activity (e. g. , mine tailings or drill cuttings). These materials are often…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (683+ words) But new evidence suggests that expectation may not be accurate. In what the team calls the most precise measurement so far of iron flowing from an Antarctic glacier, scientists from Rutgers University-New Brunswick found that meltwater from an ice shelf…...