The Unsolved Mystery of the Earth Blobs - Researchers peering into Earth’s interior found two continent-sized structures that upend our picture of the mantle.

Humans are not the only animals to build elaborate housing and grow crops—or to add carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere through their industry

Healing Power of Clay May Not be as Off-the-Wall as You Might Think: An ancient folk remedy, blue-green iron-rich clay, kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria using a one-two punch, a new study shows.

Millions More Americans Face Flood Risks: A different modeling approach fills large gaps in the U.S

Severe Drought May Have Helped Hasten Ancient Maya’s Collapse - Chemical signatures from sediments in lake cores reveal that the centuries-long drought during the fall of Classic Maya civilization was worse than researchers had imagined.

Mars may not be so Earthlike after all - Light-colored Gale crater rocks could have formed from intraplate volcanoes, not continental crust, new study finds

A Decade of Atmospheric Data Aids Black Hole Observers

Scientists might have solved a longstanding mystery of the Great Unconformity, a missing chunk of the rock record between 100 million and 1 billion years long.

The first attempt to couple models of hydrothermal circulation and magmatic convection along fast-spreading ridges may explain the spacing of hydrothermal vent fields along the East Pacific Rise.

Geological Insights from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Search

Deep Drilling Reveals Puzzling History of Campi Flegrei Caldera: Results show that caldera collapse attributed to a super eruption almost 40,000 years ago was smaller than what scientists expected.

Here Comes the Anthropocene

Lab Experiment Tests What Triggers Massive Solar Eruptions: In a first-of-its-kind demonstration, scientists provide experimental support for a possible mechanism behind the formation of coronal mass ejections.

Study finds tide gauge records underestimates the rate of sea level rise due to melting of Northern Hemisphere glaciers and ice caps, which are thought to be the dominant source of melt during the 20th century.

The Geomagnetic Blitz of September 1941

Scientists Get First Glimpse of Solar Wind as It Forms - Eos

Rock-Chomping Bees Burrow into Sandstone: A previously unknown species of rock-excavating bees, discovered 40 years ago but not reported in the scientific literature, finally gets the spotlight.

Scientists have learned that Pluto’s moon Charon captures methane shed by the nearby dwarf planet, creating thin reddish coatings on the moon’s poles.

New research suggests that the release of methane from seafloor hydrates was much slower than hypothesized during a period of rapid global warming about 56 million years ago, challenging the hypothesized role of methane hydrates in the PETM.

Scientists Map Temperature and Density in Earth's Exosphere - Eos

Bacteria Preserve Record of Earth's Magnetic Fields

What Caused Record Water Level Rise in the Great Lakes - Eos

A New Tool to Better Forecast Volcanic Unrest: In a retrospective study of volcanic unrest at Indonesia's Kawah Ijen, a new model was able to pick up on the rising probability of eruption 2 months before authorities were aware of the risk.

Pluto's Interactions with the Solar Wind Are Unique - Eos

Space Weather Research and Forecasting Act Introduced to Senate - Eos

Mysterious Heavy Ion Beams Above Mars Explained - Eos

Aging Stars Make New Habitable Zones, Scientists searching for life in the universe now have a new target: the once-icy worlds orbiting red giants

Super solar flares could have warmed the ancient Earth and jump-started life when the sun was only 500 million years old.

Tropical Rainfall Intensifies While the Doldrums Narrow, Scientists show long-term changes in the Intertropical Convergence Zone's location, extent, and rainfall intensity

Understanding Volcanic Eruptions Where Plates Meet, A new project elucidates the relationships between tectonics and volcanic systems and how they influence hazards on Italy's Mount Etna and Vulcano and Lipari islands.

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