Earth Science

Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Central Atlantic Ocean on Oct. 2 the MODIS instrument aboard analyzed water vapor within Tropical Storm Leslie. Water vap..

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared satellite imagery provides temperature data, and when NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Central Pacific Ocean, it analyzed Hurricane Walaka. Walaka is a C..

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared satellite imagery provides temperature data, and when NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Central Pacific Ocean, it analyzed Hurricane Walaka. Walaka is a C..

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared satellite imagery provides temperature data, and when NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Central Pacific Ocean, it analyzed Hurricane Walaka. Walaka is a C..

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared satellite imagery provides temperature data, and when NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Central Pacific Ocean, it analyzed Hurricane Walaka. Walaka is a C..

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared satellite imagery provides temperature data, and when NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Central Pacific Ocean, it analyzed Hurricane Walaka. Walaka is a C..

Credit: Derek Lee, Wild Nature Institute/Penn State Some features of a giraffe's spot pattern are passed on from mother to baby, according to a new study led by researchers from Penn State. Th..

Credit: Markus Breig, KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has successfully acquired funding for two clusters of excellence within the Excellence Strategy launched by the federal and state g..

Each year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants about 20 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Awards to honour scientists and scholars of still younger age (41 in case of Dr. Sugiyasu) from abroa..

A perovskite solar module the size of an A4 sheet of paper, which is nearly six times bigger than 10x10 cm2 modules of that type reported before, has been developed... view more Credit: Specific/Swa..

Credit: Rudolf Scheffrahn Tasked to defend the colony from attackers, the specialised soldier caste in some termite species has evolved various impressive mechanisms, including plug-like heads - mea..

Credit: Vinod Kumar - John Innes Centre Plants growing in the wild constantly sense and respond to a multitude of signals by suitably coordinating biological processes. Seasonal cues such as day l..

Credit: ©Science China Press The genus Vibrio is one of the best model marine heterotrophic bacterial groups, and many Vibrio species grow very fast with short generation-times. In addition, many V..

Credit: Alex Wild MADISON - Some 50 million years before humans figured it out, agriculture arrived in the world in a seemingly unlikely place: an ant hill. Eschewing wheat or rice for feathery wh..

Credit: Christiaan Kooyman, Wikimedia A debate over mummified birds brought to France after Napoleon's conquest of Egypt played a central role in delaying acceptance of evolutionary theory; an ..

Credit: Creative Commons A University of Queensland researcher has uncovered how a French scientist and ibis researcher conducted the first test of evolution more than 50 years before Charles Darwin..

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed Typhoon Trami was symmetrical and had a large eye on its approach to Japan's southern islands. At 1:05 a.m. ..

How do the large-scale patterns we observe in evolution arise? A new paper in the journal Evolution by researchers at Uppsala University and University of Leeds argues that many of them are a type of ..

Scientists have developed a human-friendly, ultra-flexible organic sensor powered by sunlight, which acts as a self-powered heart monitor. Previously, they developed a flexible photovoltaic cell that ..

Credit: /Adelphi University A newly discovered fossil suggests that large, flowering trees grew in North America by the Turonian age, showing that these large trees were part of the forest canopies..