Why Is This Remote and Rugged River in Alaska Turning Orange?
New research suggests the Salmon River is full of toxic metals that are likely harming fish and other aquatic creatures
How Marsquakes Have Helped Researchers Investigate the Depths of the Red Planet’s Interior
Two recent studies used seismic data from NASA’s retired InSight mission to shed light on what lies beneath Mars’ surface and what it means for the planet’s history
Special shards of glass, known as “tektites,” were hiding in plain sight in a museum collection
More Than 300 Hats Have Been Pulled From Yellowstone’s Geothermal Features So Far This Year
Debris, garbage and clothing often ends up in the park’s hot springs, geysers, fumaroles and mudpots
Using uranium-lead dating, researchers calculated the age of the eggs, rather than the sediments around them, at the Qinglongshan site in China
What Led Life to Flourish Roughly 520 Million Years Ago?
Changes to the world’s oceans and the rise of certain predators may have driven diversification
Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans billions of years ago, offering potentially hospitable conditions
When Micherre Fox and her boyfriend decided to get married, she flew to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas to search for the diamond herself
A Neolithic Cow’s Tooth Helps Point to the Mysterious Origins of Stonehenge’s Iconic Stones
Isotope analysis of a molar from a cow’s jawbone found buried at the monument provides details of the life story of the animal—and how it may relate to the construction of Stonehenge
A clip recorded in Myanmar in March reveals a curved path of the fault slip, which can help scientists better understand the physics of such events
New research from the Chilean Patagonia has identified a link between glacial retreat and underground volcanic activity
Bricks From a Historic Atlantic City Church Are Getting a Second Life at the Smithsonian Castle
The First Presbyterian Church’s rare sandstone bricks will be transported to Washington, D.C., where they’ll be used to restore a 170-year-old Smithsonian building on the National Mall
NASA Spacecraft Orbiting Mars Captures Image of Giant Ancient Volcano Just Before Dawn
The perspective is what astronauts would see out their window if there was an International Space Station flying around the red planet
These Tiny, Beautiful Fossils Detail the History of the Ocean
Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past
Mount Etna’s Spectacular Monday Eruption Marks the Volcano’s Most Intense Activity in Years
The explosion was the strongest since 2021, expelling ash, dust, lava and a pyroclastic flow, but no injuries or deaths were reported
A 164-Foot Tsunami Pushed This Enormous Boulder Atop a Cliff in Tonga 7,000 Years Ago
The hulking rock, called Maka Lahi, is the size of a two-story house and sits on a 120-foot-tall cliff, covered in vegetation
The Secrets of How Life Began May Be Hidden Inside the World’s Oldest Rocks
Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could unlock mysteries about Earth’s earliest history
The Land Beneath the Biggest U.S. Cities Is Sinking, Finds New Analysis of Satellite Data
Largely due to groundwater pumping and shifting of land after the last ice age, major urban areas are subsiding, which could destabilize buildings or worsen flooding
Researchers uncovered one vertebra, and based on its size, they estimate the massive creature was at least 30 feet long when it roamed the shallow seas that covered the region roughly 66 million years ago
In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful ways
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