New research reveals the source of this carbon – and the driving forces behind it – are far more complex than previously ...

For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the ...

Gravity feels reliable—stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, ...

In A Nutshell Two massive hot regions deep beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean have been influencing Earth’s protective ...

New climate maps show wild wheat and barley grew in much smaller areas than thought, narrowing early farming origins.

Gov. Wes Moore (D), who calls quantum computing a “lighthouse industry” for Maryland, has secured more than $1 billion in ...

Engineered DNA can store massive amounts of data while also encrypting it, opening the door to ultra-secure, long-term ...

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has mostly been here since the beginning ...

A China-based team of researchers has reportedly completed the “world’s first in-orbit verification” of ...

Plastic pollution remains one of the world’s most challenging environmental problems. Plastic pollution has been found everywhere on Earth, from the highest mountain peaks to the deepest parts of the ...

Deep beneath the ocean floor, ancient sediments hint that Earth’s magnetic field sometimes changed far more slowly than expected.

Earth observation data underpin climate science, disaster response, and environmental policy, yet inconsistent grid ...