Earth Science

Scientists at the University of Southampton have answered one of the most puzzling questions in plate tectonics: how and why...

Dense Hydrous Magnesium Silicates (DHMSs) are generally considered as primary water carriers from the shallow lithosphere to the deep mantle...

Antarctic-wide survey of plant life to aid conservation effortsCredit: Felix Grewe Antarctic-wide survey of plant life to aid conservation efforts...

DALLAS (SMU) – There’s an important dividing line in the history of recent Texas earthquakes – those occurring before and...

Drylands, found across every continent, cover about 45% of the Earth's land surface and support 38% of the human population....

The story of Greenland keeps getting greener—and scarier.Credit: Joshua Brown The story of Greenland keeps getting greener—and scarier. A new...

Chestnut Hill, Mass (8/1/2024) – Rocks recently exposed to the sky after being covered with prehistoric ice show that tropical...

Rice University climate scientist Sylvia Dee has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the agency’s most prestigious early career...

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have detected geochemical signatures of magma pooling and melting beneath the...

Sapphires are among the most precious gems, yet they consist solely of chemically “contaminated” aluminum oxide, or corundum. Worldwide, these...