A strange phenomenon native to the Sun’s environment was spotted in the Earth’s magnetosphere, likely evidence of reactions ...

Earth’s days are not always exactly 24 hours, and recent measurements show unusual fluctuations. Some days are getting ...

In a world made small and accessible by technology, it is easy to forget the magnitude of nature’s infinite complexity. But sometimes technology reminds us, such as when trawling planet Earth on ...

In the early days of photography, getting an aerial shot of a landscape meant attaching a camera, with a timer, to a balloon. That’s no longer necessary. These days, a bird’s eye view of the entire ...

On the universal curve, performance climbs steadily as organisms warm until they reach an optimal temperature where activity ...

In an analysis of the past 1.2 million years, UC Santa Barbara geologist Lorraine Lisiecki discovered a pattern that connects the regular changes of the Earth's orbital cycle to changes in the Earth's ...