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Eosby Kimberly M. S. Cartier10d ago
Tiny asteroid Chariklo, floating through the void between Saturn and Uranus, boasts two rings. It’s the first asteroid found to have them, and their existence took astronomers by surprise when they...
Eosby Kimberly M. S. Cartier13d ago
Climate change–driven drought is making wildfires larger and more frequent. A new analysis of nearly 3,500 recent wildfires in the western United States and Canada showed that when a fire spreads...
Eosby Nathaniel Scharping14d ago
In Alaska’s boreal forests, a negative feedback loop between wildfires and vegetation plays an important role in governing the size and likelihood of fires.
Eosby Dave Petley14d ago
A new paper (He et al. 2026) in the journal Landslides describes the breach of a massive landslide dam in Taiwan, which killed 24 people.
Eosby Katherine Kornei15d ago
With their decidedly alien appearance and ability to change color, cephalopods like squid and octopuses have long captured our imagination.
Eosby Rebecca Dzombak16d ago
Source: AGU Advances The origins of the earliest life on Earth, prior to the rise of oxygen and photosynthesis, remain a mystery.
Eosby Sarah Stanley16d ago
Source: Geophysical Research Letters The Van Allen radiation belts are huge, doughnut-shaped regions of highly energetic charged particles trapped by Earth’s magnetosphere.
Eosby Dave Petley17d ago
On Wednesday 7 October 2026 at 6 pm I will deliver my NTU inaugural lecture entitled “Landslides in a changing climate”. This is a public lecture, so all are welcome.
Eosby Grace van Deelen17d ago
On board the EPA research vessel Lake Guardian, every scientist works a 12-hour shift. From 4:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m.
Eosby Matthew R. Francis17d ago
Source: Space Weather Solar storms can have major effects on terrestrial technology, dating back to the earliest days of railroads and telegraph communications—most infamously the Carrington Event...
Eosby Dennis Clark20d ago
Do forests cool the planet or warm it? It’s a deceptively simple question with no clear answer. The catch is that the same forest can push climate in opposite directions at once.
Eosby Karthik Vinod20d ago
Venus’s pale face enshrouds a hostile reality unfolding beneath its clouds, one that’s inhospitable for life-forms as we know them.
Eosby Alberto Montanari20d ago
Source: AGU Advances Extreme heat events are an increasing threat to human health and ecosystem sustainability.
Eosby Grace van Deelen21d ago
Most of the tens of thousands of hikers that trek up Utah’s Mount Timpanogos each year have no idea that the rockfall below them conceals an enormous glacier.
Eosby Rebecca Dzombak21d ago
Source: AGU Advances Understanding how wind changes in response to global warming is necessary for accurately modeling climate and weather, identifying risks to infrastructure, and assessing global...
Eosby Rebecca Dzombak22d ago
Rainwater connects the biogeochemical cycles of the land and the atmosphere. It’s effectively a chemical conveyor belt that delivers compounds to the ground during a process called wet deposition.
Eosby Manfred Wendisch, Matthew D. Shupe, Susanne Crewell, Felix Ament and Gunilla Svensson22d ago
In late April 2026, a weakened polar vortex drove the outbreak of a cold Arctic air mass that threatened European crops with frost just as the growing season was starting.
Eosby Emily Gardner22d ago
Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news that impacts science and scientists today.
Eosby Dave Petley22d ago
A new paper (Wang et al. 2026) suggests that the bedrock failure that initiated the Nepal landslide disaster may have displayed measurable precursory deformation.
Eosby Emily Gardner23d ago
Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news that impacts science and scientists today.
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