Researchers used seismic data to test whether atmospheric rivers in 2023 replenished groundwater in the LA area after two decades of drought.

Researchers calculated that nuclear waste could be safely sealed away for more than 350 million years in geological repositories.

Scientists found that planets with life produce more complex, information-dense signals than nonliving worlds.

Scientists replicated river systems and found that erosion around waterfalls varies based on pre-existing fractures in the rock.

Scientists developed biodegradable food packaging that combines heat- and light-driven chemistry to preserve food safely and sustainably.

Scientists tested methods to reduce earthquakes caused by drilling for geothermal energy.

Astronomers identified mysterious objects that are neither stars nor planets, but could be a new class of objects in between.

Researchers found that the enrichment of radiogenic elements in the upper continental crust requires high-temperature metamorphism to melt minerals in the lower continental crust.

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Researchers discovered that neurons from patients with different neurodegenerative diseases share the same pattern of DNA mutations.

Scientists studied sediments from the Mississippi River catchment to determine whether modern agriculture caused more landscape erosion than past glacial melting.

Researchers simulated the effects of dark matter halos on galaxies and found that denser halos produced smaller galaxies.

Researchers showed that thawing permafrost reduces the quantity and quality of fish species in Arctic streams.

Scientists found that forest harvesting and wildfires in British Columbia are causing severe weather events to worsen.

Scientists used machine learning models to predict the prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes in agricultural soil under future climate scenarios.

Scientists discovered a 445-million-year-old horseshoe crab fossil showing that these animals have maintained the same reproductive system for nearly half a billion years.

Researchers compared traditional Aymara weather signs with decades of meteorological data and found that some indicators are strongly linked to seasonal rainfall patterns.

Scientists determined the driving forces behind catastrophic events linked to glaciers in the Eastern Himalayas.

Scientists modeled how Earth’s temperature and atmosphere will change over billions of years and predicted that life could persist for another 2 billion years.

A scientist simulated the early solar system to determine how interactions between the Sun and other stars affected its planetary orbits.

Researchers demonstrated that blooms of the free-floating seaweed Sargassum can sustainably extract rare earth elements from water.

Scientists found that water interacting with furnace slag rapidly solidified beach sediments at Derwent Howe.

Scientists discovered soil viruses that help legume plants convert atmospheric nitrogen into biologically available nutrients.

Researchers identified trends in extreme cold events that can push migratory animals, such as bull sharks, beyond their thermal tolerance and sometimes cause death.

Researchers discovered a parasitic worm that reduces mice’s ability to feel pain by suppressing the activity of pain-sensing neurons in their skin.

Scientists who observed a glacier collapse in Greenland proposed a new model for how ice sheets melt, via water flowing both upward and down.

Scientists developed a new seismic-based signalling system that provides early alerts of volcanic eruptions.

Scientists found that dinosaurs in the south remained diverse until the asteroid impact that caused their extinction 66 million years ago.

Researchers developed a fully biodegradable energy-harvesting device that uses spent coffee grounds to transform motion into electricity.

Researchers demonstrated that the first microbes to colonize recently deglaciated soil can extract nutrients from air and rock.

Researchers pieced together clues from seismic data and sediment samples to unravel the history of tsunami-causing earthquakes in Japan.

Researchers found elevated metal concentrations in waters downstream of lithium-containing hard rock processing sites, even decades after mining was discontinued.

Scientists compared how effective traditional chemical fungicides and newer biological fungicides are in killing the fungus responsible for brown rot disease.

A Columbia University scientist argued that the existence of humans provides strong evidence that intelligent life is more likely to evolve on water-covered versus land-covered planets.

Researchers used isotopes in magmatic minerals to demonstrate that continental magmas altered globally around 450 million years ago following the evolution of land plants.

Scientists studied meandering rivers across the globe to establish how they responded to the evolution of land plants.

Researchers studied clay deposits on Mars using the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and found evidence for a warm and humid past climate.

Astronomers studied 3 galaxies that formed 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang to calculate how much gas, stars, and dark matter they contained.

Researchers found that interactions between methane gas and seawater affected greenhouse gas emissions from the Arctic Ocean during a past period of global warming.

Researchers developed a rapid, solar-driven process that transforms waste polystyrene and excess sulfur into chemicals used in electronics.

Researchers analyzed timescales preserved in crystal growth zones and found that magma beneath Ethiopia rises dozens of miles to the surface in just weeks to months.

Researchers surveyed over 20,000 stars thought to come from a nearby galaxy and found that no more than 1% harbored close-orbiting, Jupiter-like planets.

Researchers found that the 2023 El Niño event was fueled primarily by heat stored in the ocean rather than in Pacific winds.

Scientists used a network of satellites to measure the rotational characteristics of 85 stars previously thought to have unique chemistries.

Scientists tested how mixtures of plant-growth-promoting bacteria affect sunflower plants' microbes for use in sustainable agriculture.

Scientists found that ants under heat stress were less active, which left their host acacia plants vulnerable to herbivores and other environmental threats.

Scientists developed a new genetics curriculum that emphasizes how environmental factors and social interactions contribute to differences among humans.