Research: Massive impact crater from a kilometer-wide iron meteorite discovered in Greenland —

An international team lead by researchers from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen have discovered...

Research: Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior —

Slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates under the ocean drag about three times more water down into the deep Earth than previously estimated, according...

Research: Computer simulations find climate change making hurricanes more intense —

New supercomputer simulations by climate scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown that climate change intensified...

Research: The first cave-dwelling centipede from southern China —

Chinese scientists recorded the first cave-dwelling centipede known so far from southern China. To the amazement of the team, the specimens collected during...

Research: ‘Rare’ jellyfish not so rare —

When the Rhizostoma luteum jellyfish was discovered at the beginning of the 19th century in the waters of the Strait of Gibraltar, only...

Research: Rising sea levels may build, rather than destroy, coral reef islands —

Rising global sea levels may actually be beneficial to the long-term future of coral reef islands, such as the Maldives, according to new...

Research: Carbon goes with the flow —

Many people see the carbon cycle as vertical -- CO2 moving up and down between soil, plants and the atmosphere. However, new Michigan State...

Research: Study first to measure physiological effects of crude oil on marine animals’ olfactory...

It has been almost a decade since the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill. Described as the worst environmental disaster in the United States, nearly...

Research: Electrolocation by weakly electric fish shows astonishing similarities to vision —

The African elephantnose fish generates weak electrical pulses to navigate its environment. This localization sense apparently shows an astonishing similarity to vision, as...

Research: Experimental herapy could repair mutations that cause genetic diseases —

A new technology that relies on a moth-infecting virus and nanomagnets could be used to edit defective genes that give rise to diseases...

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