Coastal wetlands like salt marshes are increasingly recognized as valuable natural defenses that protect coasts against strong wave attacks.
Yet their performance during real-world, extreme storms has rarely been told. By digging into major…
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New research reveals how water in the deep Earth triggers earthquakes and tsunamis
In a new study, published in the journal Nature, an international team of scientists provide the first conclusive evidence directly linking deep Earth’s water cycle and its expressions with magmatic productivity and earthquake activity.
Water…
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Discovering an exoplanet the size of Neptune
An exoplanet the size of Neptune has been discovered around the young star AU Microscopii, thanks in part to the work of Jonathan Gagné, a former iREx Banting postdoctoral researcher who is now a scientific advisor at the Rio Tinto Alcan…
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A Blue Spark to Shine on the Origin of the Universe
Why is our Universe made of matter? Why does everything exist as we know it? These questions are linked to one of the most important unsolved problems in particle physics.
This problem is that of the nature of the neutrino, which could be its own…
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Volcanic Eruption Caused Social and Political Unrest Leading to Rise of Roman Empire
The assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March in 44 BC triggered a 17-year power struggle that ultimately ended the Roman Republic leading to the rise of the Roman Empire.
To the south, Egypt, which Cleopatra was attempting to restore…
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New Interactive Map Reveals the Lost Continent of Zealandia
A new mapping interface by the GNS Science’s Te Riu-a-Māui / Zealandia research programme (TRAMZ) reveals the geology of Aotearoa New Zealand and the lost continent of Zealandia.
The map allows users to explore the geoscience data that shows…
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Study Suggests Pluto Started Out With Liquid Oceans
A new study suggests that Pluto and other large Kuiper belt objects started out with liquid oceans which have been slowly freezing over time.
The accretion of new material during Pluto’s formation may have generated enough heat to create a…
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Scientists provide new explanation for the far side of the Moon’s strange asymmetry
The Earth‐Moon system’s history remains mysterious. Scientists believe the two formed when a Mars‐sized body collided with the proto‐Earth.
Earth ended up being the larger daughter of this collision and retained enough heat to become…
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Drones Map High Plateaus Basin in Moroccan Atlas to Understand Human Evolution
Researchers from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) have been using drones to create high-resolution aerial images and topographies to compile maps of the High Plateaus Basin in Moroccan Atlas.
The study aims…
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The Kerguelen Oceanic Plateau Sheds Light on the Formation of Continents
How did the continents form? Although to a certain extent this remains an open question, the oceanic plateau of the Kerguelen Islands may well provide part of the answer, according to a French-Australian team led by the Géosciences Environnement…
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