The Trump administration has holistically reevaluated the government’s relationship—and how it responds to threats— to the health and welfare of its citizens. The past year was a shock to the U.S.

An American alligator surfaces in a Louisiana bayou. As apex predators, alligators shape wetland ecosystems through both trophic interactions and physical landscape ...

On every continent, unassuming rocks covered in a thin, slimy layer of microbes pull carbon from the air and deposit it as solid calcium carbonate rock. These are microbialites, rocks formed by ...

Scientists trekked across Icelandic lava flows that served as stand-ins for Venus’s volcanic landscapes, testing tools and ...

Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news regarding law and policy changes that impact science and scientists today. Today, top appropriators in ...

Snowpacks in places such as this windswept alpine pass in the Front Range of Colorado are difficult to characterize with current remote sensing methods because of cloud cover, complex topography, and ...

Evidence of a massive underwater landslide lurks beneath the seafloor of the Norwegian Sea. Credit: Politikaner/NASA World Wind, Public Domain When it comes to landslides, some of our planet’s largest ...

Aurorae such as the southern lights, seen here over Antarctica, show the geomagnetic field in action. Some areas of the field, which shields Earth’s surface from charged solar particles, are stronger ...

Years ago, scientists noted something odd: Earth’s Northern and Southern Hemispheres reflect nearly the same amount of sunlight back into space. The reason why this symmetry is odd is because the ...

Two new studies investigate the possible origins of organic molecules detected in plumes erupting from the surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, pictured here in an artist’s impression. Enceladus’s ...

Storm Agnes is seen over the Bay of Biscay offshore western Europe on 27 September 2023 in this image captured by the Flexible Combined Imager on the Meteosat Third Generation satellite. Credit: ...

The federal government shut down just after midnight on 1 October. Credit: Beth Bagley/AGU Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news regarding law ...