Warm water flowing into fjords and beneath ice shelves will continue to be a prime cause of glacial melting as global temperatures rise. This melting will, in turn, contribute to sea level rise and ...

Schematic evolution of shear stress during earthquakes on an idealized unit area fault surface highlighting the main energy sinks: newly created surfaces (ES), radiated energy (ER), frictional heat ...

A crowd beats the heat with spray from a fire hydrant in Seattle. A new method for measuring urban heat exposure shows that more densely populated neighborhoods may face higher heat and longer hot ...

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. The EPA proposed today that ...

Despite warnings that their actions are illegal, Duffy and other senior NASA officials have continued to secretly direct NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellites missions ...

Laboratory earthquakes shed new light on energy partitioning during earthquakes, which is allocated to seismic radiation, creation of new surfaces, and heat dissipation.

A schematic of the Pi Cloud Chamber. Scientists created a “cloud-in-a-box,” where warm, humid air from the heated bottom wall meets cooler, humid air from the cold top wall, generating supersaturation ...

Heat waves, such as the record-breaking Siberian heat wave in 2020, are having lingering impacts on Arctic ecosystems. Credit: Andrei Zverev/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0 Now Kwon et al. suggest that the ...

As multiple fires raged through Los Angeles in January 2025, Bernadeth Tolentino had one more thing to worry about: kelp. Tolentino, a marine biologist and graduate student at the University of ...

The 2025 Palisades and Eaton Fires torched scrub-lined slopes of the San Gabriel and Santa Monica Mountains, as well as buildings, streets, cars, and infrastructure. Before the flames were even ...

This map displays the estimated degree of damage, from heavy (black) to less intense (yellow), in settlements across the zone affected by the 2025 Myanmar earthquake. Credit: MaxWyss/Wikimedia Commons ...

Red nodules on the roots of an alder tree in Oregon are the result of nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Credit: Steven Perakis Plants use nitrogen to produce proteins, enzymes, and chlorophyll: all necessary ...