A subduction zone near Cascadia is unraveling piece by piece. The process offers a rare glimpse into how tectonic plates die and form new geological boundaries. With unprecedented clarity, researchers ...
MIT scientists have discovered ancient rock samples from Greenland, Canada, and Hawaii exhibiting a rare potassium-40 deficit ...
In a study published in October 2025 in the Astrophysical Journal, we modeled one of the sources of these geomagnetic storms: ...
With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate ...
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With advance warning, however, steps can be taken to reduce the risks. If an electrical grid is running near capacity, for ...
The work of American artist Stanley Casselman lives at the intersection of art and science, translating the elements of ...
New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...
A new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.
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As China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) achieved a drilling depth of over 10,000 meters at one of its wells, it marked ...