Category: Earth

Beneath the great, white expanse of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, a mysterious realm of streams and lakes lies out of sight. Much about this hidden water world remains poorly understood. But a new study suggests that if scientists continue…

Soot from forest fires in the Amazon might play a role in the melting of faraway ice in Antarctica.

For decades, scientists have known that black carbon from burning fossil fuels or forests accelerates ice melt in different parts of…

An unexpected phenomenon called convection could help explain many of the volcanoes and other features of the Venusian landscape.

“Nobody had really…

By chemically analyzing crystals in ancient rocks, scientists from Curtin University, the University of Portsmouth and St. Francis Xavier University discovered that as glaciers carved through the landscape after the Neoproterozoic ‘snowball…

When PhD student Gal Raviv thought of creating a sanctuary garden at the Weizmann Institute of Science, what she had in mind was saving endangered plants. But after the October 7 attack on Israel, the recently established garden became for her a…

A team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, TUD Dresden University of Technology and the Australian National University, has discovered an ‘unexpected’ accumulation of beryllium-10 — a rare radionuclide produced…

2024 was studded with record-setting scientific discoveries. From tracing the origins of glow-in-the-dark animals to developing the world’s fastest microscope, these superlative feats captured our imagination.

Ancient…

One of Turkey’s most impressive geological wonders is Pamukkale (meaning “cotton castle”), renowned for its sinter terraced formations created by calcite-rich springs.

In an unusual twist of Britain’s industrial past, similar tufa terrace…