Tag: scientists

Chances of climate catastrophe are ignored, scientists say

Experts are ignoring the worst possible climate change catastrophic scenarios, including collapse of society or the potential extinction of humans, however unlikely, a group...

Reconstructing volcanic eruptions to help scientists predict climate risks

University of Saskatchewan (USask) researcher Dr. Matthew Toohey (Ph.D.) and University of Bern researcher Dr. Michael Sigl (Ph.D.) were part of the research team...

Scientists discover world’s longest underwater avalanche after rescue of lost data

Prompt action by scientists recovered sensors drifting across the Atlantic Ocean that held data on a seabed sediment avalanche that traveled for 1,100 km...

Scientists find oldest Martian meteorite’s original home

Scientists announced Tuesday they had found the crater from which the oldest known Martian meteorite was originally blasted towards Earth, a discovery that could...

Scientists challenge claim British rivers are ‘cleanest since Industrial Revolution’

Water quality is still "unacceptably poor" in many British rivers, research involving academics at York has shown. The study, published in Science of The Total...

Help NASA scientists find clouds on Mars

NASA scientists hope to solve a fundamental mystery about Mars' atmosphere, and you can help. They've organized a project called Cloudspotting on Mars that...

Scientists decipher, catalog the diverse origins of Earth’s minerals

A 15-year study led by the Carnegie Institution for Science details the origins and diversity of every known mineral on Earth, a landmark body...

Scientists have discovered a new type of fossilization

An international team of scientists from UCL (University College London), the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Natural History Museum (London) and the University of...

How you can help scientists study the atmosphere on Jupiter

A new citizen science project, led by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities with support from NASA, allows volunteers to play an...

Scientists map sulfur residue on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa

A Southwest Research Institute-led team used the Hubble Space Telescope to observe Jupiter's moon, Europa, at ultraviolet wavelengths, filling in a "gap" in the...

River belt discovery helps scientists understand ancient rivers

Long after a river has dried up, its channel belt lives on. Made up of swaths of sediment surrounding the river, channel belts, once hardened...

Scientists provide explanation for exceptional Tonga tsunami

Scientists say they have identified the exact mechanism responsible for the exceptional tsunami that spread quickly across the world after the colossal eruption of...

Recent articles

spot_img