Earth
Moving and shaking for 4.5 billion years
The physical processes that sculpt our Earth are dramatic — earthquakes, weather, volcanic eruptions, tectonic motions, climate change. Now, decades of research into the intricately intertwined system that links all oceans and freshwater, the atmosphere and our land is moving us forward toward a better understanding of our world. Here we watch it unfold.
Gel-like beads embedded with natural bacteria could fight harmful algal blooms.
Some bubbles grow to be more than a quarter-mile across.
A month's worth of cool science stories summed up.
New research adds to the worry that soil microbes will make climate change worse.
Preventing losses of electricity as it travels from the source to where it's used could cut greenhouse gas emissions by half a billion metric tons a year.
Scientists now know much more about the underground cavities in the sand that nearly killed a boy in 2013.
Researchers are learning how to cope with the arrival of the sargassum’s “brown tide."
The Saffir-Simpson scale relies on wind to categorize a hurricane, but it doesn't account for storm surge or flooding.
Researchers in Antarctica turned up a large amount of a form of iron likely forged in nearby supernova explosions.
Heat is the number one cause of weather-related deaths in the U.S.
New research finds plastic particles in Arctic snow, in amounts that surprise scientists.
A month's worth of cool science stories summed up.
