Giant blobs deep inside Earth are 'evolving by themselves'
Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.
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Does the Amazon River Flow Backward? The Remarkable Reversal of Earth’s Largest River
Does the Amazon River Flow Backward? It’s a question that often sparks curiosity among explorers, scientists, and anyone ...
In A First, Geoscientists Track Earth’s Largest Sediment Avalanches
Using seismic stations usually used for monitoring earthquakes, an international team of geoscientists tracked Earth’s ...
High-frequency monitoring reveals complex infiltration-preferential flow processes in karst hillslopes
A study led by Prof. Chen Hongsong from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has ...
Going with the flow: Visualizing ocean currents with ECCO ocean model
Historically, the ocean has been difficult to model. Scientists struggled in years past to simulate ocean currents or ...
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NASA's new EZIE mission will study Earth's auroras from space
NASA's EZIE will study auroral electrojets, powerful electrical currents in Earth's atmosphere. This will improve space ...
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The distinct role of Earth’s orbit in 100-thousand-year glacial cycles
The ebb and flow of Pleistocene glacial cycles is not random; it follows a predictable pattern dictated by the distinct and deterministic influence of Earth’s orbital geometry, according to a new ...
NASA’s Ezie launching to study magnetic fingerprints of Earth’s aurora
High above Earth’s poles, intense electrical currents called electrojets flow through the upper atmosphere when auroras glow in the sky. In March, NASA plans to launch its EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman ...