The Winchcombe meteorite was recovered, largely from a driveway, just hours after it fell to Earth, preserving evidence that its early relatives could have filled Earth’s oceans.
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Sharing the Geology of the Tour de France
In short broadcasts, a team of educators brings geological knowledge to the cycling world.
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Antarctic Meteorites Are Going, Going, May Soon Be Gone
If warming ice gobbles up meteorites, science may lose a cheap source of space rocks.
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When Fieldwork Comes Home
The impacts of the 2021 Marshall Fire rippled through a community of Colorado geoscientists, spurring them to action.
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Moonlit Nights Change a Coral Reef’s Tune
Some reef fish get chattier when the Moon is out, while feisty snapping shrimp and other invertebrates pipe down.
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Radioamadores Foram Usados Para Obter Informações sobre a Ciência Ionosférica Durante o Eclipse
Operadores de rádio amadores que estudam a física espacial e a atmosfera superior investigaram a resposta da ionosfera ao eclipse solar anular de 2023 usando transmissões de ondas curtas.
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Tatooine, Trisolaris, Thessia: Sci-Fi Exoplanets Reflect Real-Life Discoveries
After astronomers discovered exoplanets wildly different from Earth, exoplanets in science fiction became less Earth-like, too.
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The Crocodile Dundee Site Helping Rewrite the History of Australian Bushfires
A lake made famous by Hollywood has yielded powerful new evidence that humans have conducted controlled burns on the Red Continent for tens of thousands of years.
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Fiber-Optic Networks Could Reveal the Moon’s Inner Structure
Distributed acoustic sensing offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional seismic arrays, and building such a network on the Moon might be possible.
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Sea Otters’ Appetite for Crab Is Helping Strengthen Estuary Banks
Apex predators can have a powerful impact on coastal erosion rates by keeping grazer populations down, but their influence has been largely overlooked.