How Thermal Runaway Supercharged the 2024 Calama Quake
In July 2024 a powerful earthquake centered beneath Calama, northern Chile, challenged long-standing ideas about how dee...
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750 Million at Risk: Day Zero Droughts Accelerate Now
Climate modelers warn that the next decades could bring a dramatic increase in multi-year droughts that overwhelm local ...
China's Supergiant Gold Finds Could Be Worth $80+ Billion
Two recently reported Chinese gold discoveries — the Wangu deposit in Hunan province and the Dadonggou deposit in Liaoni...
Most Dog Breeds Carry Detectable Wolf DNA, Study Finds
Many pet dogs carry a trace of their wild relatives: a new genomic analysis finds wolf ancestry across a majority of mod...
Shear-Driven Bubbles: The Hidden Trigger in Volcanoes
Scientists have found a surprising new trigger inside volcanic conduits: shear forces that "knead" magma and produce gas...
Coastal Upwelling Is Making Oceans Acidify Faster
New research shows that coastal upwelling systems are accelerating ocean acidification well beyond global averages, thre...
Plants That Mine Metals: Ferns Could Unlock Rare Earths
Researchers have discovered that certain ferns can concentrate rare earth elements (REEs) by forming microscopic monazit...
Mexico’s Ox Bel Ha: The Underwater Cave Keeps Growing
Deep beneath the Yucatán Peninsula, a watery labyrinth keeps yielding secrets. Sistema Ox Bel Ha — the Maya name for "Th...
Why Juvenile Pikas Are Disappearing in the Rockies
New long-term monitoring from Colorado raises alarm: the youngest members of a familiar alpine species — the American pi...
Parasitic Ant Sparks Matricide: How Queens Are Overthrown
A stealthy intruder can rewrite the rulebook inside an ant colony. New footage and research published in Current Biology...
Wild Wolf Uses Tool to Steal Crab Trap — First Evidence
In a remote stretch of British Columbia coastline, researchers captured a behavior that challenges assumptions about wol...
Golden Orb Two Miles Deep: Mysterious Find Off Alaska
During a 23‑day NOAA Ocean Exploration mission off Alaska, a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) encountered an object that ...
Why Africa Still Harbors Earth’s Largest Land Animals
Africa remains the planet’s premier refuge for the largest land animals. From elephants and giraffes to rhinos and hippo...
Century-Long Cold Spot Traced to Slowing Atlantic Currents
For more than a century, scientists have puzzled over a persistent pocket of unusually cold water south of Greenland tha...
Bumblebees Read Morse-Like Light Signals to Find Food
Scientists have taught bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) to distinguish short and long flashes of light — a simplified form...
Amazon Lakes Reached 41°C, Killing Hundreds of Dolphins
During the severe 2023 drought, several floodplain lakes in Brazil's central Amazon heated to temperatures higher than a...
How CO2 Fuels Kimberlite Eruptions That Bring Diamonds
Most natural diamonds reach the surface inside a rare, carrot-shaped volcanic rock called kimberlite. New computer model...
Mysterious Blue Volcanic Goo Hides Alkaline Life Clues
An unexpected discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean is rewriting ideas about where life can survive. Researchers examining...
Maya Cosmogram: Aguada Fénix, a 3,000-Year-Old Sky Map
New fieldwork at Aguada Fénix — the vast early Maya complex in Tabasco, Mexico — shows the site was planned as a cosmogr...
Hidden 11-Million-Year Meteor Impact Revealed in Australia
Tiny glass beads scattered across southern Australia are revealing the fingerprint of a previously unknown meteorite imp...