"If tire wear particles alter the composition of these biofilms, it affects the entire river system," study leader and PhD candidate Dana Bludau said, according to Phys.org. The outlet stated that, ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

Scientists have long known that diamonds are among Earth's oldest materials, but recent research has revealed that pink diamonds serve as extraordinary time capsules, preserving evidence of our planet ...

Ice core records of atmospheric hydrogen reveal a huge rise in concentration since the Industrial Revolution which has ...

The Earth’s atmosphere is experiencing an accelerated rate of atmospheric escape, leading to a faster loss of gases into ...

It’s like glimpsing a rifle bullet for a thousandth of a second, David Jewitt of the University of California, Los Angeles, described of the brief existence of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The third ...

In the cosmic ocean, 63 light-years from Earth in the constellation Vulpecula, orbits one of the most extreme and fascinating worlds ever discovered. HD 189733b, a “hot Jupiter” exoplanet, has ...

As missions like Kepler and TESS discovered more rocky exoplanets in recent years, scientists looked forward to the launch of the JWST. The powerful space telescope has the ability to gather infrared ...

JWST observations of exoplanet TRAPPIST-1d reveal a lack of a substantial, Earth-like atmosphere, as indicated by a "flat" spectral signature lacking typical atmospheric molecule fingerprints (e.g., ...

Our revisit of fundamental issues of climate challenges the notion and term of the “greenhouse effect”, and attempts a scientific reevaluation using minimal assumptions, such as Newton’s laws, maximum ...

Moths rely on carbon dioxide emissions from host plants to identify optimal egg-laying sites. As atmospheric CO₂ levels rise, this natural signal becomes confused, leading the moths to make ...

Fossilized dinosaur teeth can reveal a lot more than just how these creatures ate and who they were related to – they can also tell us what the air was like in prehistoric times. As it turns out, ...