Scientists used a deep learning algorithm to map the size and location of nearly 94 million boulders on the lunar surface, highlighting differences in boulder densities and size distributions.
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Balancing Comparability and Specificity in Sustainability Indicators
A new study shows how engaging national stakeholders in Austria helps adapt global sustainability indicators to better reflect regional agricultural priorities, especially social and economic aspects.
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The State of Stress in the Nankai Subduction Zone
The Nankai subduction zone, in southern Japan, has hosted several large magnitude 8+ earthquakes during the last three hundred years. But, how stressed is it right now?
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What Goes Up Must Come Down: Movement of Water in Europa’s Crust
Using Earth’s glaciers as an analog, a new study explores the possibility of downward propagation of fractures and melt in Europa’s icy crust.
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Three Magmatic Pulses Helped Rifting Transform into Seafloor Spreading
A new geochronology of Mesozoic magmatism along the eastern margin of North America shows that continental breakup involved three distinct pulses of magmatism that localized extensional deformation.
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Why Crop Yield Decreases at High Temperatures
Scientists find that water stress drives the connection between surface temperature and crop yield loss, providing information to help improve predictions of agricultural productivity under climate change.
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A Volcanic Boom Puts the Squeeze on Remote Confined Aquifers
A new study shows that ground water levels responded to forcing by barometric pressure pulses from the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Volcanic Eruption.
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Mapping the Whereabouts of Continents
A new method integrates Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) with conventional ground geodetic networks, taking us closer to high-resolution mapping of plate motions.
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Why Subsequent ICMEs are More Geoeffective
A new study demonstrates how an interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) clears the path for following transients and explains why subsequent ICMEs are more geoeffective.
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New Insights into How Rocks Behave Under Stress
New 3D imaging techniques show hidden patterns of stress that help explain how and why rocks break.