Category: Earth

Personal care and cosmetic products play a significant role in our daily lives, enhancing our appearance and self-confidence. However, beneath their aesthetic appeal lies a growing concern regarding their…

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…

Twenty years ago, the seafloor west of Indonesia abruptly pushed upward as a deep undersea fault, where two of Earth’s tectonic plates meet, slipped. The upward shove violently shifted the seawater above, transferring deadly energy…

A hot spot is starting to form along the coast of East Antarctica.

An ice shelf that broke apart seemingly unprovoked a couple of years ago had been steadily weakening for 30 years, largely unnoticed by scientists, researchers report…

Researchers at the Planetary Science Institute have compiled a 1:200,000-scale geological map of the lunar Orientale basin, focusing on identifying the most widespread and accessible occurrences of impact melt deposits from the basin-forming…

As if hurricanes needed any more kick.

Human-caused climate change is boosting the intensity of Atlantic hurricanes by a whole category on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which rates hurricanes based on their peak…