1+ hour, 36+ min ago  (812+ words) At depths below 1, 000 kilometers in Earth's mantle, pressures exceed 1 million atmospheres, temperatures are hotter than lava at the surface, and rocks behave in ways that defy intuition. Recently, researchers discovered a distinct fourth contributor to mantle heterogeneities'one that arises from…...

7+ hour, 20+ min ago  (280+ words) In the Philippines, an incredibly useful manual has been published that guides local government agencies in preparing for and responding to landslides. The Philippines has a long term landslide problem, with most events being triggered by either rainfall associated with…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago  (185+ words) Sending a spacecraft to the underexplored planet Uranus is at the top of many planetary scientists" wish lists. But which spacecraft-mounted instruments would be the most useful for answering questions about the mysterious ice giant? By measuring the numbers, directions,…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (629+ words) With every work commute or grocery store run, a car's tires wear down, causing tiny fragments of rubber to break away from the tire surface. That microscopic debris can be washed into streams, waterways, and estuaries when it rains. "Driving…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (320+ words) Map of the Aleutian Arc in Alaska and the Andreanof study area. The lower map shows where ocean-bottom seismometers and land seismic stations recorded sound waves from an active-source seismic experiment conducted aboard the R/V Marcus G. Langseth, allowing the…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (31+ words) Timothy A. Gonsalves/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4. 0 This is an authorized translation of an Eos article. "Eos" "(cold blob)(barotropic governor mechanism) "Saima May Sidik (@saimamay. bsky. social)...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (368+ words) For the past 20 years, scientists studying exoplanets have been literally blinded by fog. Many "hot Jupiters" (massive gas giants orbiting extremely close to their host stars) are constantly wrapped in clouds. This overcast condition acts like a fogged-up window, blocking…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (472+ words) From Antarctica's frozen wilderness to the heights of Mount Everest, microplastics have been found in some of the most remote places on Earth. And their reach continues to expand. "It is yet another piece of evidence that our massive consumption…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (228+ words) It is now clear that more than half the fatalities from last week's earthquake in the Philippines were caused by landslides. The people reported to be missing were likewise due to earthquake-induced landslides, he further noted. Asked whether there were…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (536+ words) Albert Einstein postulated in his 1905 theory of special relativity that the speed of light in a vacuum is constant. Ever since, that's been one of the fundamental assumptions of physics. This bending of light's path, according to general relativity, is…...