Consecutive El Niños are happening more often and the result is more devastating, research suggests
El Niño, a climate troublemaker, has long been one of the largest drivers of variability in the global climate. Every few ...
4,000 Meters Below Sea Level, Scientists Have Found the Spectacular 'Dark Oxygen'
Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...
Scientists Are Mapping the Boundaries of What Is Knowable and Unknowable
Math and computer science researchers have long known that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are ...
The Stars That Froze Mid-Song: How Starquakes Reveal a Hidden Stage in Galactic Evolution
Some stars in our galaxy pulse like musical instruments, and scientists have found a way to listen in. These rhythmic ...
An exception to the laws of thermodynamics: Shape-recovering liquid defies textbooks
A team of researchers led by a physics graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst made the surprising ...
Scientists Discover That North America Is “Dripping” Down Into Earth’s Mantle
Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate.
Consecutive El Niños are happening more often and the result is more devastating – new research
In recent decades, these climate patterns have been persisting longer and recurring more often. A striking example is the ...