Earthquake Symmetry and What It Means for Early Warning Systems
A recent study investigated around 100,000 localized seismic events to search for patterns in the data. University of Tokyo Professor Satoshi Ide discovered that earthquakes…
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Major Environmental Challenge As Microplastics Harm Our Drinking Water
Plastics in our waste streams are breaking down into tiny particles, causing potentially catastrophic consequences for human health and our aquatic systems, finds research from…
Climate Change Implications of Tiny Airborne Particles From Wildfires
Scientists with Arizona State University connections are important contributors to a newly published article in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Wildfires…
How Diet Changes Can Sustain The World’s Food Production
A model helps researchers look at optimal ways to mine phosphate rock sustainably. If you wanted to really mess with the world’s food production, a…
Phytoplankton Bloom off Hawaii Island Fueled by Kilauea Lava
When Kīlauea Volcano erupted in 2018, it injected millions of cubic feet of molten lava into the nutrient-poor waters off Hawaiʻi Island. The lava-impacted seawater…
Golden Future of Cancer Treatment: Gold-Based Molecules That Target Cancer Cells
Researchers have engineered gold-based molecules that target cancer cells and leave healthy cells unharmed, in a critical step towards precision cancer drugs with fewer toxic…
Mini Satellite’s Incredible Inside View of Hurricane Dorian
A new view of Hurricane Dorian shows the layers of the storm, as seen by an experimental NASA weather satellite that’s the size of a…
Dramatic Views of Hurricane Dorian from the International Space Station [Video]
Cameras outside the International Space Station captured views at 10:37 a.m. EDT on September 3, 2019, of Hurricane Dorian from 260 miles in altitude as…
NASA Satellite’s Infrared Eye Analyzes Typhoon Lingling
The storm that became Typhoon Lingling strengthened very quickly in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and infrared imagery from NASA revealed the powerful thunderstorms fueling that…
NASA Satellite Spots Major Hurricane Juliette’s Emerging Eye
NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the Eastern Pacific Ocean and provided an image of Hurricane Juliette as its eye began to emerge. Juliette has grown…
Hurricane Dorian’s Eye Seen from the International Space Station
NASA is keeping an eye on Hurricane Dorian, which has battered the Bahamas and now threatens Florida and much of the southeastern coast of the…
NASA Estimates Hurricane Dorian’s Rain Using Data From a Fleet of Satellites
In the early hours of Tuesday, September 3, Hurricane Dorian had been stationary over the island of Grand Bahama for 18 hours, most of the…
Experts: Banning Trophy Hunting Can Have a Negative Impact
Experts have outlined “compelling evidence” that suggests banning trophy hunting can negatively affect conservation – arguing that unregulated killings are far more prevalent in non-hunting…
Forecasting Tool for Eruption Behavior of Hot, Flowing Lava
Tool lets scientists examine changing behavior of low-viscosity lava. Thomas Jones’ “universal break-up criterion” won’t help with meltdowns of the heart, but it will help…
Evidence for Past High-Level Sea Rise Discovered By Scientists
Scientists discover evidence for past high-level sea rise at current atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Mallorcan cave yields 4-million-year-old geologic evidence providing new insights into magnitude…
Multiple Views of Hurricane Dorian from Different NASA Satellites
Several instruments and spacecraft from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have eyes on Hurricane Dorian, capturing different types of data from the storm….
Pacific Ocean Iron Level Mystery Solved
The middle of the Earth’s oceans are filled with vast systems of rotating currents known as subtropical gyres. These regions occupy 40% of the Earth’s…
Stanford Researchers Discover Ancient Die-Off Greater Than the Dinosaur Extinction
When significant oxygen entered the atmosphere, ancient life multiplied. But after a few hundred million years, Earth’s oxygen plummeted, resulting in a die-off likely greater…