Research and Discoveries

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (286+ words) Gondwana is an ancient continent which scientists have now confirmed was a supercontinent that spread over 80 per cent of the landmass on Earth. They found 25,000 ancient rocks, and AI helped them determine that they belonged to Gondwana 500 million years ago....

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1207+ words) Earth may look stable from the ground, but its history has been repeatedly rewritten by events arriving from space. Asteroids, planet-sized bodies, and enormous showers of extraterrestrial debris have smashed into our planet, melted crust, altered environments, and sometimes transformed…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (127+ words) Credit: Journal of Remote Sensing This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2021YFC2202001), the Special Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52441508), the Research on Accuracy Improvement and Application of ACDL Multi-Component…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (320+ words) New research published by Nature has confirmed that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet gained an astounding 695 billion metric tons of ice between 2021 and 2023, despite continually rising global temperatures. In the modern age of climate change, an actual gain in ice…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (404+ words) We usually depict the early Earth as a restless planet, exposed to ultraviolet radiation, struck by lightning, and constantly hit by meteorites. These widespread energy sources are typically thought to have played a role in forming life’s building blocks. But…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (365+ words) New data on the formation of Earth’s oldest and largest ice sheet may help solve a long-standing mystery surrounding the southernmost continent, according to the website “The Debrief.” About 34 million years ago, the Antarctic ice sheet began to form—during…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (593+ words) Antarctica was blanketed in a massive ice sheet roughly 34 million years ago — while the Arctic remained largely ice-free until just five million years ago. That’s a 30-million-year gap, and it has puzzled climate scientists for decades. The world back then…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (69+ words) Sarah Stanley, a freelance writer for Eos, has a background in environmental microbiology but covers a wide range of science stories for a variety of audiences. She has also written for PLOS, the University of Washington, Kaiser Permanente, Stanford Medicine,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (639+ words) Home → Science → Astronomy Deep Earth conditions created in a lab reveal the core is chemically packed with hydrogen. Earth’s core has often been described as just a giant ball of molten iron and nickel. Now, a new study argues that…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (258+ words) As environmental conditions change, it is increasingly important to understand the structure and properties of the Earth’s critical zone, the layer where rock, soil, water, air, and living organisms meet and interact. While several geophysical methods provide images of the…...