Scientists often look to the past for clues about how Earth's landscapes might shift under a changing climate, and for insight into the migrations of human communities through time. A new study offers both by providing, for the first time, a reconstruction of prehistoric temperatures for some of the first...
Deep ocean currents around Antarctica headed for collapse
Antarctic circulation could slow by more than 40 per cent over the next three decades, with significant implications for the oceans and the climate.
VIMS Study: Sea-Level Rise is Double-Edged Sword for Carbon Storage
Coastal ecosystems are a natural storehouse for carbon, with policymakers looking to bays, marshes, and seaside forests as nature-based solutions to help combat climate change.
How whale shark rhodopsin evolved to see, in the deep blue sea
A group of researchers discovered that the rhodopsin -- a protein in the eye that detects light -- of whale sharks has changed to efficiently detect blue light, which penetrates deep-sea water easily. The amino acid substitutions -- one of which is counterintuitively associated with congenital stationary night blindness in...
NASA Missions Study What May Be a 1-In-10,000-Year Gamma-ray Burst
On Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022, a pulse of intense radiation swept through the solar system so exceptional that astronomers quickly dubbed it the BOAT – the brightest of all time.
NASA Releases Agency Climate Strategy
NASA has been working to better understand our home planet from the unique vantage point of space since the first TIROS satellites launched in the 1960s.
Bacterial Injection System Delivers Proteins in Mice and Human Cells
Researchers at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have harnessed a natural bacterial system to develop a new protein delivery approach that works in human cells and animals.
With Fewer Salmon to Eat, Southern Resident Killer Whales Spend Less Time in the San Juan Islands
As a key food supply declines, the endangered population of Southern Resident killer whales, known to frequent the Salish Sea off the coasts of Washington and British Columbia, is spending far less time in that region, a new study shows.
Researchers Develop Electrolyte Enabling High Efficiency of Safe, Sustainable Zinc Batteries
Scientists led by an Oregon State University researcher have developed a new electrolyte that raises the efficiency of the zinc metal anode in zinc batteries to nearly 100%, a breakthrough on the way to an alternative to lithium-ion batteries for large-scale energy storage.
How Cosmic Winds Transform Galactic Environments
Much like how wind plays a key role in life on Earth by sweeping seeds, pollen and more from one place to another, galactic winds – high-powered streams of charged particles and gases – can change the chemical make-up of the host galaxies they form in, simply by blowing in...