Earth Science
Hidden Microbial Worlds Revealed in Four Colombian Andean Lakes
A 16S rRNA gene sequencing survey of four Colombian Andean lakes reveals diverse bacterial communities, predicted metabolic functions and low-abundance...
Tiny Plastics, Big Problem: New Biosensors Race to Detect Micro- and Nanoplastics
A new review highlights how micro- and nanoplastics threaten ecosystems and human health, and how aptamer-based biosensors could finally deliver...
When the Tap Fails: How Measuring Water Insecurity Exposes Hidden Hunger in Australia and the Asia Pacific
Researchers in Australia and Timor-Leste show that experiential measures of water and food insecurity reveal hidden household hardship that conventional...
Two Winds, Not One: Rethinking Neutral Winds in Ionospheric Electrodynamics
A new study shows that height-integrated ionospheric electrodynamics requires two distinct conductivity-weighted neutral winds rather than a single average, with...
Massive New Stress Map Reveals Earth’s Crust Is Far More Twisted Than We Thought
The 2025 release of the World Stress Map database, containing 100,842 stress records, shows that maximum horizontal stress orientations rotate...
Seismic Waves Fired Between Alpine Boreholes Reveal Hidden Glacial Buried Basin in Unprecedented Detail
A novel three-borehole crosshole seismic experiment at the ICDP DOVE site in Germany's Tannwald Basin has produced the first high-resolution...
Nepal’s Lifeline Highway Is Held Together by Suction That Vanishes Every Monsoon
A new geotechnical investigation shows that the non-plastic, highly permeable soils of Nepal's Mugling-Narayanghat highway lose 30 to 36 percent...
Alpine peat bogs reveal 10,000 years of cold snaps and human fingerprints in the Swiss Alps
Cores from 10,000-year-old peatlands in Switzerland's Fimba Valley record Holocene cold events, including the 8.2 ka climate anomaly, alongside millennia...
A Simple Electric Current Could Reveal How Thirsty Soils Breathe
New research shows that simple electrical conductivity measurements can track how drying soils constrain microbial respiration through the connectivity and...
AI Learns Where U.S. Streamflow Droughts Come From—and Predicts Them Where No Gauges Exist
A new USGS study trained 3,198 machine learning models to reveal the regional drivers of streamflow drought across the United...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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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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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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