In a Fierce Desert, Microbe ‘Crusts’ Show How Life Tamed the Land
At first glance, the grit crust could seem like a routine example of what researchers call a biological soil crust, or “biocrust”—a community of coexisting...
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Where to Find the Energy to Save the World
because of the promising conditions in Starr and Hidalgo Counties, Jamie had been helping a handful of people there. The Sage team, of course. The...
What This Fearsome Weapon Reveals About Early Americans
Perhaps, as Davis and other archeologists suggest, those people came from northeast Asia by boat, moving south along the Pacific coastline and setting up camps...
A New Tool for Eruption Forecasting: Carbon-Catching Drones
She and her team flew these drones while they were standing inside the crater to compare faraway atmospheric measurements with those closer to the source....
‘We Are the Asteroid’: The Case for Hope Amid Climate Fears
Earth’s atmosphere, as it exists, is both a profound statistical anomaly and the very thing that makes human life possible. Human activity is upsetting that...
Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on Earth
“Each one of those kinds of pyrite is telling us something different about our planet, its origin, about life, and how it’s changed through time,”...
Reshuffled Rivers Bolster the Amazon’s Hyper-Biodiversity
From the window of a passenger plane flying over the Amazon, the view is breathtaking. “It’s just miles across the river and river islands,” said...
Undersea Cables Are the Latest Tools for Earthquake Detection
These very words may have flown through an undersea cable before reaching your eyeballs. Hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber optics crisscross the world’s...
Scientists Map Yellowstone’s Plumbing With … a Helicopter
You probably know that Yellowstone National Park’s iconic Old Faithful, which fires geysers up to 180 feet in the air, gets its kick from underlying...