Earth Science
Researchers enhance tool to better predict where and when wildfires will occur
CORVALLIS, Ore. – A newly enhanced database is expected to help wildfire managers and scientists better predict where and when wildfires...
Aluminum scandium nitride films: Enabling next-gen ferroelectric memory devices
Imagine a thin film, just nanometers thick, that could store gigabytes of data – enough for movies, video games, and...
Pompeii skeleton discovery shows another natural disaster may have made Vesuvius eruption even more deadly
Almost 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger wrote letters describing a shaking ground as Vesuvius erupted. Now, a collaborative study...
Learning from Venus: Combining earth system sciences with planetary sciences
The University of Freiburg is establishing a new tenure track professorship in Earth and Planetary Geodynamics at the Faculty of...
New geological datings place the first European hominids in the south of the Iberian Peninsula 1.3 million years ago
One of the most important controversies about human evolution and expansion is when and by what route the first hominids...
Unprecedented warming threatens earth’s lakes and their ecosystems
Lakes, with their rich biodiversity and important ecological services, face a concerning trend: rapidly increasing temperatures. A recent study published...
Greenhouse gas emissions from reservoirs in the Yellow River Basin
Led by the team of Xinghui Xia and Shaoda Liu (School of Environment, Beijing Normal University), this study integrates existing...
Researching heat waves in the Mediterranean with the diving community
The goal is to encourage divers to not only store their data for themselves, but also to share them online...
A garnet-rich lunar mantle?
Our present-day Moon has an interior structure containing a central metallic core, overlain by a mantle comprised of minerals such...
First-principles investigations of the polysomatism of antigorite under pressure
Antigorite is a type of serpentine, which is the most abundant hydrated mineral on the Earth. It is widely believed...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Warm seawater speeding up melting of ‘Doomsday Glacier,’ scientists warn
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Probiotics during pregnancy shown to help moms and babies