Once thought to be part of the same population, planets larger than Jupiter and “failed stars” likely grow via different mechanisms, the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey has shown.Read More »Planetary Sciences
New research suggests that the surface of Venus is busy, but it may take new missions to our “sibling” planet to confirm this.Read More »Science Policy & Funding
The resolution, which legislators hope the House of Representatives will approve, calls for a massive mobilization to halt, reverse, mitigate, and prepare for the consequences of climate change.Read More »Mathematical Geophysics
In the most detailed and highest-resolution black hole simulation to date, an international team of researchers showed the Bardeen-Petterson effect for the first time.Read More »Planetary Sciences
Hubble Space Telescope observations suggest that sodium chloride exists in young, geologically active regions on Europa, likely fed by upwelling from the moon’s subsurface ocean.Read More »Science Policy & Funding
The state legislature decides this week whether to override the governor’s $130 million cuts that could devastate the university and its world-class research.Read More »
Logging, urbanization, and dam building are a few ways people have significantly altered natural river ecosystems. Understanding that influence is a grand challenge of our time. Read More »Geohealth
A new case study suggests that Sutton Lake has been contaminated by multiple coal ash spills, most of them apparently unmonitored and unreported.Read More »
