Rift Valley lakes within eastern Africa range from freshwater to highly alkaline systems and are homes to diverse ecosystems. These Rift Valley lakes are also…
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A colored topographical image showing river valleys on Mars. The outlet canyon Loire Vallis (white line) formed from the overflow of a lake in Parana…
Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, providing the earliest evidence of human activity in the Americas. Credit: Cornell University Newly discovered…
Shown is a schematic description of key processes and operational activities being explored in the SHASTA (Subsurface Hydrogen Assessment, Storage, and Technology Acceleration) project. Hydrogen…
Maharloo Lake, a seasonal salt lake in Iran, is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data…
Basaltic lava flow. Credit: The University of Queensland Lava samples have revealed a new truth about the geological make-up of the Earth’s crust and could…
Close up image of an esker (a sedimentary cast of a meltwater channel formed beneath an ice sheet), discovered within a tunnel valley using the…
The asteroid Vesta. Credit: NASA and JPL The troughs on Vesta have long been a topic of scientific speculation. The asteroid Vesta is the second…
August 11, 2021. (Click image for wide, high-resolution image.) Several filmmakers have used the desert landscapes of Wadi Rum as a stand-in for the Red…
Scanning electron microscopy images of foraminifera from different angles. Credit: Northwestern University Shelled organisms helped buffer ocean acidification by consuming less alkalinity from seawater. Third…
Hydrohematite (right) is a brighter red than anhydrous hematite (left). Credit: Si Athena Chen, Penn State A combination of a once-debunked 19th-century identification of a…
A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder reveals the complex history behind one of the Grand Canyon’s most well-known geologic features: A…
Backscattered-electron (BSE) image of a botryoidal Pt-Pd nugget. Credit: Rogerio Kwitko-Ribeiro International drilling efforts over the last decades into the seafloor have provided increasing evidence…
UW Assistant Professor Jay Chapman teaches a winter-term field course in southern Arizona, during which students were able to investigate the Orocopia Schist in person.…
An image taken by the Curiosity Rover MastCam instrument shows layered sedimentary rocks composing Mount Sharp. The rover has been driving from the floor of…
Salzgitter-Salder: A perfect rock boundary sequence over 40 meters. Credit: Silke Voigt, Goethe University Frankfurt Research team with Goethe University participation successfully proposes former quarry…
Water collects on mosses. The first land plants were thought to be non-vascular, like mosses. Credit: Katmai Preserve NPS Photo/Russ Taylor The arrival of plants…
Mandible of small antelope in calcrete. Credit: Philip Kiberd Evidence from an ancient eggshell has revealed important new information about the extreme climate change faced…
There is evidence that a comet struck Earth around 13,000 years ago. A cluster of comet fragments believed to have hit Earth nearly 13,000 years…