Ancient Cooking Stones Help Reconstruct Earth’s Magnetic History
Cooking stones that line Maori steam ovens in New Zealand are helping scientists study the history of the Earth’s magnetic field. The cooking process generates…
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River Formation Due to Interplay Between Incision and Soil Creep
The precise conditions that cause rivers to form branches have long been a mystery, until now. A new study pinpoints two opposing physical forces that…
5-Mile Wide Buried Asteroid Crater Discovered in Canada
A 5-mile wide and 3,000-foot deep asteroid impact crater has been hidden near Bow City, Alberta, for millions of years. Bow City has been deserted…
Grand Canyon Thought to Be 65 Million Years Older Than Previous Estimates
A new analysis of the mineral grains from the bottom of the Grand Canyon indicates that it was formed about 70 million years ago, during…
Unusual Indian Ocean Earthquakes May Signal Tectonic Breakup
On April 11th, 2012 a pair of massive earthquakes rocked the Indian Ocean. Scientists think that these may be the latest step in the formation…
Impact of Plants on Cloud Formation and the Atmosphere
Using a new soil–water–atmosphere–plant model supported by comprehensive observational evidence, a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience examines the role plants play in…
Plate Tectonics Discovered on Mars
While analyzing roughly 100 satellite images from NASA’s THEMIS spacecraft and the HIRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, UCLA scientist An Yin discovered that…
Nitrogen Pollution Is Altering Sensitive Ecosystems
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder believe that nitrogen emissions are altering sensitive ecosystems in the Rocky Mountain National Park, representing a first step…
Tropical Oceans Role in Climate Change
A new report from the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science and the Marine Institute describes for the first time a globally synchronous pattern…
Phobos May Provide Evidence of Life on Mars
Scientists estimated that several large impact events on Mars could have launched significant amounts of Martian material into space, leading them to believe that if…
Ash Preserved Fossils of Rangeomorphs Discovered in Newfoundland
Found in rocks at the Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, researchers discovered over 100 fossils of what are believed to be “baby” rangeomorphs that lived 580-550…
First Direct Observation of an Under-Ice Algal Bloom in the Arctic
During a NASA-sponsored ICESCAPE expedition, scientists found a massive algal bloom under the Arctic sea ice. Once thought impossible, this marks the first direct observation…
Defects in Mantle Rocks Slow Down the Passage of Seismic Waves
A new study from the Australian National University examines defects in rocks found below the earth’s surface in an attempt to better understand how seismic…
