2+ hour, 54+ min ago  (206+ words) Mirage News Curiosity Finds Evidence of an Ancient Sandstorm Billions of years ago, an hours-long Martian sandstorm blew so intensely that sand ripples began to climb upon one another as they moved across the surface. These layers of sediment eventually…...

6+ hour, 13+ min ago  (429+ words) NASA's Perseverance took this selfie at "Witch Hazel Hill" on Jezero Crater's rim on May 10, 2025. The small dark hole in the rock in front of the rover is the borehole made when the rover collected the "Bell Island" sample. The…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (548+ words) Deep in a cave in the Missouri Ozarks, a ghostly crustacean blindly grasps for food in total darkness. Illuminated by a flashlight, the Bristly Cave crayfish shines white and nearly translucent. Cut off from sunlight for thousands of generations, cave…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (254+ words) Activity Database on Education and Research Kyoto, Japan -- Japan is well known for its large earthquakes, but not all regions show the same patterns of earthquake activity. One way to understand which places tend to experience large or small earthquakes…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (336+ words) An interdisciplinary team from Florida State University's Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science has uncovered new evidence about processes that may have contributed to ancient mass-extinction events, some of the most dramatic ecosystem reorganizations in Earth's history. The study,…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago  (299+ words) More than 90% of the key nutrients degrading the Mar Menor, such as ammonium, phosphorus, and silica, do not come from streams or continental groundwater, but rather through a mechanism that has so far been overlooked: water from the lagoon itself…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (302+ words) Every five years, Washington law requires Ecology to report on how changing water supply and demand could affect communities, farms, and fish over the following 20 years. The findings are intended to help elected officials and water managers identify current vulnerabilities…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (558+ words) Geologists studying some of the planet's oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major role in shaping Earth's interior and driving volcanic activity more than three billion years ago. An international research team, led by…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (874+ words) Scientists have uncovered why Antarctica became engulfed by ice millions of years before the Arctic. The international research, published in Science, helps to solve one of climate science's longest-standing puzzles: how a vast ice sheet could form when Earth was…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (568+ words) Mirage News The effects of indi­vidual climate factors on ecosys­tems are usually consid­ered in isola­tion; however, in real­ity, they occur simul­ta­ne­ously and influ­ence each other. Increasing CO₂ concen­tra­tions in the…...