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

Scientists have revealed how gold’s atomic structure shifts when the metal is crushed under pressures 10 million times greater than Earth’s atmosphere. The study, led by the Lawrence Livermore ...

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

A research team led by the University of Münster has discovered new evidence of a layered structure in the Earth’s inner core ...

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

Study finds Earth's ancient atmosphere may have produced essential sulfur biomolecules like cysteine, challenging theories on ...

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...

Experimentally verified thermodynamic model reduces relative uncertainty of previous model by over one order of magnitude.

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

Researchers have captured the most detailed look yet at how gold’s atomic structure changes under some of the highest pressures ever achieved in a laboratory. The new findings offer rare insight into ...

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 ...