Temperature Shifts Deep Down in the Earth Give Rise to Volcanic Eruptions
The astonishing force of the Tonga volcanic eruption shocked the world, but the fact that this underwater volcano actually erupted came as less of a…
Geoscience
Scientists Discover Mysterious Leftovers of Earth’s Dramatic Formation
Researchers have uncovered the most detail ever of the mysterious structures laying between the Earth’s mantle and core, also providing the strongest evidence yet they…
Deadliest Period in Earth’s History Was Also the Stinkiest – Toxic Microbe Burps Caused Mass Extinction
Tiny microbes belching toxic gas helped cause — and prolong — the biggest mass extinction in Earth’s history, a new study suggests. Generally, scientists believe…
Volcanic Fertilization of the Oceans Drove Severe Mass Extinction – Reshaping the Course of Evolution of Life on Earth
Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that two intense periods of volcanism triggered a period of global cooling and falling oxygen levels in…
Crystal Clues: Earth’s Early Magma Oceans Detected in 3.7 Billion Year-Old Greenland Rocks
Earth hasn’t always been a blue and green oasis of life in an otherwise inhospitable solar system. During our planet’s first 50 million years, around…
New Possibilities for Life in the Strange, Dark World at the Bottom of Earth’s Ocean – And Perhaps in Oceans on Other Planets
In the strange, dark world of the ocean floor, underwater fissures, called hydrothermal vents, host complex communities of life. These vents belch scorching hot fluids…
New Ultrahard Diamond Glass Synthesized Using Carbon Buckyballs
It is the hardest known glass with the highest thermal conductivity among all glass materials. Carnegie’s Yingwei Fei and Lin Wang were part of an…
Burst of New Geochemical Evidence for Viking Travels Exactly 1,000 Years Ago
Novel geochemical dating techniques show that Norse people were in L’Anse aux Meadows exactly 1,000 years ago. Since the 1960s, archaeologists have been gathering physical…
Underground Tests Dig Into How Heat Affects Nuclear Waste Containers in a Salt-Bed Repository
Study to refine computer models, inform policymakers for future spent nuclear fuel disposal. Scientists from Sandia, Los Alamos and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories have just…
Climate Crisis: New Research Shows Humans To Blame for Warming Lakes
While the climate crisis is, unfortunately, a reality, it is all too easy to assume that every aspect of our changing world is a consequence…
Land Ahoy: First Continents Bobbed to the Surface of Earth 500 Million Years Earlier Than Thought
Most people know that the land masses on which we all live represent just 30% of Earth’s surface, and the rest is covered by oceans….
Animals Died in “Toxic Soup” During Earth’s Worst Mass Extinction – A Warning for Today
‘The end-Permian is one of the best places to look for parallels with what’s happening now.’ The end-Permian mass extinction event of roughly 252 million…
New Earth Bombardment Model: How Asteroid and Comet Strikes May Have Delayed Evolution of the Atmosphere
Study finds collisions that stalled oxygen growth on planet more common than thought. Between 2.5 and 4 billion years ago, a time known as the…
Massive Extinction of Species in the Late Cretaceous Was Not Caused by Extreme Volcanism
A study published in the journal Geology rules out that extreme volcanic episodes had any influence on the massive extinction of species in the late…
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Detects Three Big Marsquakes
The lander cleared enough dust from one solar panel to keep its seismometer on through the summer, allowing scientists to study the three biggest quakes…
NASA Confirms Thousands of Massive, Violent Volcanic “Super Eruptions” on Mars
Scientists found evidence that a region of northern Mars called Arabia Terra experienced thousands of “super eruptions,” the biggest volcanic eruptions known, over a 500-million-year…
What Lies Beneath: Volcanic Secrets Revealed – “We’ve Been Misled, Geologically Deceived”
Lava samples have revealed a new truth about the geological make-up of the Earth’s crust and could have implications for volcanic eruption early warning systems,…
International Observatories Assemble To Solve “Energy Crisis” on Jupiter
Sitting more than five times the distance from the Sun as Earth, Jupiter is not expected to be particularly warm. Based on the amount of…
