Geophysics/Gravity

Results have implications for life on MarsCredit: Photo courtesy Justine Sauvage NARRAGANSETT, R.I. - February 26, 2021 - A team of researchers from the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography and their…

Credit: Bruce Houghton The unprecedented cost of the 2018 Kilauea eruption in Hawai'i reflects the intersection of distinct physical and social phenomena: infrequent, highly destructive eruptions, and atypically high population growth,…

A Skoltech researcher has developed a theoretical model of wave formation in straits and channels that accounts for nonlinear effects in the presence of a coastline. This research can improve wave prediction, making maritime travel safer…

University of Utah to award $46 M for research in Enhanced Geothermal System development The Utah Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) at the University of Utah is pleased to announce it has chosen 17 project…

Credit: Dr Emma Tomlinson, Trinity College Dublin. Geologists have developed a new theory about the state of Earth billions of years ago after examining the very old rocks formed in the Earth's mantle below the continents.…

Credit: Evgeny Chuvilin Researchers from the Oil and Gas Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and their Skoltech colleagues have surveyed the newest known 30-meter deep gas blowout crater on the Yamal…

Laschamp excursion occurred in Australia and seen by first humansCredit: Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher Drilling a 270,000-year old core from a Tasmanian lake has provided the first Australian record of a major global…

Are super-Earths capable of creating conditions that are hospitable for life to arise and thrive?Credit: Image is courtesy of Yingwei Fei. Sandia Z Machine photograph by Randy Montoya, courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories. …

New research helps understand how plate tectonics powers life on EarthCredit: Dr Andrew Merdith/University of Lyon Geoscientists have released a video that for the first time shows the uninterrupted movement of the Earth's tectonic plates…

Credit: Stuart-Smith et al./Nature Geoscience As the planet warms, glaciers are retreating and causing changes in the world's mountain water systems. For the first time, scientists at the University of Oxford and the…

Study shows that cyclones could affect seemingly unrelated weather disasters in an entirely different continentCredit: NASA on Unsplash The year 2020 played host to an uncharacteristically large number of natural disasters. The year…

Explainer video showing the deployment of sensors and explanation of the geological phenomenon. An upsurge of matter from deep beneath the Earth's crust could be pushing the continents of North and South America further apart from…

A proposed collaborative initiative involving researchers in a wide range of fields could lead to better predictions of large-scale seismic events To predict when earthquakes are likely to occur, seismologists often use statistics to…

Study: Nanocrystals may explain staggering number of bubbles in erupted lavaCredit: Photo courtesy of S. Hajimirza/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 19, 2021) - Microscopic bubbles can tell stories about Earth's biggest volcanic…

Credit: NASA The Gulf of Mexico holds huge untapped offshore oil deposits that could help power the U.S. for decades. The energy super basin's longevity, whose giant offshore fields have reliably supplied consumers with oil…

Credit: Sarah Granke Research led by the University of Wyoming shows that physical weathering is far more important than previously recognized in the breakdown of rock in mountain landscapes. Because it is difficult to measure,…

Analysis of the first super slow motion recordings of upward flashes suggests a possible explanation for the formation of luminous structures after electrical discharges split in the atmosphere.Credit: INPE Researchers at Brazil's…

An outcome of the MARCAN project, led by the University of MaltaCredit: MARCAN Groundwater flow and seepage can form large gullies along coastal cliffs in the matter of days, it has been discovered, as per a recently-published…

For the first time in Israel: Drilling under the bed of the Dead Sea; Documents 220,000 years of earthquakesCredit: Tel Aviv University A first-of-its-kind study conducted under the bed of the Dead Sea reveals that a devastating…

First direct observation of magnetic field affecting autofluorescence of flavins in living cellsCredit: Video by Ikeya and Woodward, CC BY, originally published in PNAS DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2018043118 Researchers in Japan have made the first…