Students in the Orcutt Academy’s Geology classes experienced the thrill of atmospheric data collection Wednesday morning ...

The Joint Actinide Shock Physics Experimental Research (JASPER) facility recently surpassed 200 full-containment experimental ...

Deep inside Earth, researchers see signs that the solid inner core may be arranged in multiple chemical layers far below.

Just as in-flight turbulence—irregular disruptions in the airflow—results in a bumpy plane ride, plasma turbulence transports ...

The ice giant classification is oversimplified, as Uranus and Neptune are still poorly understood,” meint Luca Morf des Universitats Zürich. Erörterung des schweizer Wissenschaftler sollte jedoch ...

A team of engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed ways to rapidly evaluate new thermal protection materials ...

John Schroeder, a professor in the Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech University, has been named to the National Academy ...

One of the difficulties of geoengineering is that in theory a single entity, like a startup company, could make decisions ...

From the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 to the now-routine return of commercial spacecraft, heat shields—formally called thermal protection systems—are critical for protecting ...

Today, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. This stark contrast has long driven scientific interest in how water ...

Across laboratories and test sites, scientists are racing to crack the code of abundant, low-cost clean power, and a new wave ...

Capturing carbon dioxide from industrial plants is an important strategy in the efforts to reduce the impact of global ...