The discovery of hundreds of giant comets in the outer planetary system over the last two decades means that these objects pose a much greater hazard to life than asteroids, a team of astronomers from Armagh Observatory and the University of Buckingham report. The…
In a new study published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research, Japanese scientists claim they have solved the mystery of auroral breakups – the formation of auroral substorms and the sudden bursts of brightness. The study overthrows existing theories about…
Scientists from Australian National University (ANU) have discovered that the temperature in the lower mantle varies much more than previously thought. Lower mantle, which lies 3 000 km (1 864 miles) below the Earth's crust, has greater temperature differences…
A new study has been conducted to investigate the toxic barium metal in fracking wastewater. Although the chemicals inserted into injected freshwater during the mixing process with highly saline brine in the rock are generally assumed to be partially responsible for…
An international team of scientist has conducted a study of fossil corals and mollusk shells from the Pacific Ocean which has shown there is no link between the strength of seasonal differences and El Niño. This discovery seems to cast a shadow of doubt on…
A recent research found that California's iconic mountain range – Sierra Nevada – is much older than it was thought. New techniques used in research also revealed new secrets mountain range had been holding to itself. One of the biggest mysteries in the…
Seismic observations of our planet's interior have revealed three distinct structures, marking the boundary between its metallic core and silicate mantle. The structures include remnants of subducted plates from the Earth's surface, ultralow velocity zones…
An international team of researchers has found the evidence of link between the large-scale volcanic event and the large and abrupt cooling of the Earth's temperature during the Jurassic Period, the University of Exeter reported on December 11, 2015. The…
The biggest step so far toward the world's goal of providing clean, virtually limitless energy resources has been made, as the scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald, Germany produced the first helium plasma. The plasma was…
A new study, conducted by the University of Washington (UW) researchers used a huge volcanic eruption in Iceland, from the period between summer 2014 and early winter 2015, to explore how the sulfur emissions affects cloud's brightness. The results suggest the…
