Tag: Earth Science

The Autonomous Saildrone Surveyor Preps for Its Sea Voyage

If you happen to be crossing the San Francisco Bay or Golden Gate bridges this week, look for a massive surfboard with a red...

2020 Was the One of the Hottest Years on Record

Earth was on fire last year (in case you forgot), with record-breaking West Coast wildfires, Siberian heat waves, and Atlantic hurricanes. Now government...

Geometry Reveals How the World Is Made of Cubes

At first, “everything seemed to work,” Jerolmack said. Domokos’ mathematics had predicted that rock shards should average out to cubes. An increasing number of...

Uh-Oh. Russia’s Laptev Sea Should Have Started to Freeze by Now

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.For the first time since records began, the main...

Climate Change Drove the American Mastodon to Extinction

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Genetic diversity could shrink as animals venture into new...

Can a Bubble Net Stop a Hurricane? Some Norwegians Think So

Such a project would take tens of millions of dollars, but a pilot project to prove its feasibility would cost considerably less, according to...

Ground-Penetrating Radar Mapped a Buried Ancient Roman City

Falerii Novi was once a walled town just north of Rome, likely founded around 241 BC as a relocation site for a Falisci tribe...

A Drop in Commercial Flights Is Bad for Hurricane Forecasts

As the hurricane season’s third tropical storm churns toward the US coast, forecasters lack some key data that helps them predict a hurricane’s...

Want to Study Permafrost? Get It Before It’s Gone

The discovery heralded a new understanding of permafrost. It was proof that life could exist in extreme places. But more ominously, it suggested that...

The Search for the Next Big Idea in Magnetic Field Mapping

The model doesn’t just help you get from the office to Taco Bell: Ships and planes—civilian and military—also rely on it. “One of NGA’s...

Scientists Chase Snowflakes During the Warmest Winter Ever

Not counting this night’s grounded flight, McMurdie and colleagues have flown on 12 trips since the beginning of January. While that may seem...

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