Geophysics/Gravity

The reality of ongoing climate warming might seem plainly obvious today, after the four warmest years on record and a summer of weather extremes in the whole northern hemisphere. A few years back however, some media and some experts were…

How a planet's interior could help determine its habitability Humankind's exploration of space has for years pondered one central question: Is there another world somewhere in the universe where human beings could survive? And as…

Ship-to-shore conversations with deep-sea scientists will take place during the American Geophysical Union fall meetingCredit: Luis Lamar, WHOI Scientists and engineers on a deep-sea expedition aboard the research vessel Atlantis in the…

Climate change drives rainfall extremes More and more rainfall extremes are observed in regions around the globe - triggering both wet and dry records, a new study shows. Yet there are big differences between regions: The central and…

Credit: Doug Bloomquist, IRIS WASHINGTON--The 2016 Iniskin earthquake (magnitude 7.1) that shook Anchorage, Alaska, was captured by the seismometers of the EarthScope Transportable Array. This data is helping Geoff Abers, a professor at…

American Geophysical Union fall meeting will be held Dec. 10-14 LSU faculty, students and staff will present more than 80 research talks, posters, press conferences and events at the largest Earth and space sciences conference in the…

Credit: Liang et al. When Yu "Alex" Liang started graduate school at The University of Texas at Austin, he was tasked with running a straight-forward experiment to collect data on a well-understood phenomenon in fluid mechanics: how…

New method based on popular puzzle allows scientists to see flowing grainsCredit: Dr. James Baker, University of Sydney When strolling along the beach, our footprints tell us that the sand under the surface must have moved but not…

Detailed observations of Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbræ help explain dynamic tidewater glacier speedup and slowdownCredit: Ryan Cassotto, CIRES/CU Boulder In August 2012, in the frigid wilderness of West Greenland, the Jakobshavn…

Credit: Wits University Researchers from Wits and colleagues from the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar are on a "detective mission" to describe, classify and trace the history of a meteorite that landed in and around the small…