3+ hour, 18+ min ago  (463+ words) Scientists have discovered a vast reservoir of magma bubbling beneath the Tuscan soil that may not yet have erupted. With no obvious volcano to mark the spot, the immensity of the system and its extreme heat had gone unmeasured until…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (793+ words) New simulations show that the world's strongest ocean current didn't start flowing overnight " several major factors needed to align before it could begin exerting its powerful influence on Earth's climate. Five times stronger than the Gulf Stream, the Antarctic Circumpolar…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (566+ words) An expedition to a deep-sea ridge, just north of the Hawaiian Islands, revealed a surprise back in 2022: an ancient dried-up lakebed paved with what appears to be a yellow brick road. The exploration vessel Nautilus discovered the eerie scene while…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (688+ words) About 7, 300 years ago, a volcano off Japan's Kyushu island unleashed what remains the largest known eruption of the Holocene, our current geological epoch. In a new study, researchers reveal how this volcano's enormous magma chamber is now slowly refilling, potentially…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago  (698+ words) Far away, alone in a crater on a planet inhabited only by robots, NASA's Perseverance rover explores a dry landscape that was once a river system billions of years ago. According to a new discovery, however, the Jezero Delta on…...

4+ week, 12+ hour ago  (756+ words) The rapid climate change we are experiencing today is mainly driven by the greenhouse gases we humans keep releasing into the air. But new evidence from ancient Antarctic ice cores suggests this wasn't always the case for the past three…...

1+ mon, 10+ hour ago  (671+ words) A new study may have solved a long-standing mystery about the Moon's magnetism: Why do lunar rocks brought back by the Apollo missions show evidence of an intense magnetic field sometimes rivaling or exceeding that of Earth today? Considering the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (687+ words) Space junk returning to the Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, a new study has found. Published today in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, the study was led by Robin…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (763+ words) Deep inside the Greenland ice sheet, radar images have revealed strange, plume-like structures distorting the layering deposited over eons. Now, more than a decade after their discovery, scientists think they have figured out what causes these structures, and it's a…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (664+ words) Researchers have identified a period of sluggish magnetic field flipping for planet Earth, some 40 million years ago " raising big questions about how long these reversals actually take, and how we might be affected by the next one. Magnetic field flips…...