A view from a retrofitted spy plane reveals complex emissions of high-energy light Above the cloud tops, thunderstorms throb with a complex, frenetic light show of high-energy radiation. A view from a retrofitted spy plane soaring at 20 kilometers up revealed storms glowing and flickering in gamma rays, high-energy lightContinue Reading
An underwater volcano that gave birth to a new island off Japan’s Iwo Jima island has erupted again, sending huge plumes of ash and smoke into the sky in footage released by Japan’s Coast Guard. An underwater volcano that recently gave birth to a new island in the Pacific hasContinue Reading
While some might find the book dense, it offers illuminating insights into our current crisis As once-prosperous farmlands collapsed in the northern part of the empire, people fled to the south. The southern Akkadians’ response? Build a more than 150-kilometer-long wall between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, barring entry toContinue Reading
The results could help scientists understand the complex flows of water and air on Earth Some days really are longer than others. And now scientists know by precisely how much. Using a laser gyroscope, scientists have measured variations in Earth’s rotation rate smaller than a millionth of a percent. TheContinue Reading
The term will help people remember how important the organisms are, researchers say Fungi. They grow between toes, on bread and in the shower. But the organisms also produce food and medicine and act as ecosystem maids by decomposing dead matter — benefits that are sometimes overlooked. That’s why theContinue Reading
The storm intensified overnight and made landfall near Keaton Beach, Florida, on the morning of Aug. 30, supporting predictions that soaring sea temperatures would boost storms and hurricanes this year. Hurricane Idalia has reached northern Florida and continues to batter the state with torrential rain and howling winds, despite droppingContinue Reading
A new USDA report finds forests could become a major emitter of carbon by 2070 CLIMATEWIRE | U.S. forests could worsen global warming instead of easing it because they are being destroyed by natural disasters and are losing their ability to absorb planet-warming gases as they get older, aContinue Reading
Glaciologists bored 500 meters through the Kamb Ice Stream to access the cavern The coastal plain of the Kamb Ice Stream, a West Antarctic glacier, hardly seems like a coast at all. Stand in this place, 800 kilometers from the South Pole, and you see nothing but flat ice extendingContinue Reading
Seismic waves suggest that the planet has a hidden heart Earth’s heart may have a secret chamber. The planet’s inner core isn’t just a solid ball of nickel and iron, researchers say, but contains two layers of its own: a distinct central region nestled within an outer shell. Scientists sayContinue Reading
The megalodon shark and its direct ancestors may have been ‘hyper apex predators’ Whenever paleontologist Dana Ehret gives talks about the 15-meter-long prehistoric sharks known as megalodons, he likes to make a joke: “What did megalodon eat?” asks Ehret, Assistant Curator of Natural History at the New Jersey State MuseumContinue Reading