Perhaps this is why I’ve found such resonance in the work of American geologist Marcia Bjornerud, who urges us to begin ...

The shortest ever day on Earth is recorded today, with Earth rotating 1.3 milliseconds faster than the standard time, ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

As summer settles in and temperatures climb in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s impossible to forget just how much the sun ...

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace.

During Earth’s ancient global glaciation, known as “Snowball Earth,” scientists propose that life may have survived in meltwater ponds scattered atop the icy surface. Credit: Shutterstock Modern-day ...

Glaciers in Canada, the U.S., and the Alps have lost 12% of their volume since 2001, as heatwaves and soot drive melt rates beyond forecasts.

If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice sheets may melt, causing seas to rise and displacing coastal communities, a ...

In this study, the design optimization of rare-earth-free flux switching machines (FSMs), viz., ferrite permanent magnets (PMs) and wound-fields (WFs), 12-stator slots/10-rotor poles (12/10) and 12/14 ...

The Chang’e-6 (CE6) lunar mission returned the first lunar soil samples from the far side of the Moon in June 2024. We analyzed 10 major elements, one minor element, and 31 trace elements in two CE6 ...