Earth Sciences

Why The French Get Grumpy When It's Warmer

conditioners, and about 8 percent more negative feelings in rich countries. The ratings are subjective but all ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 21 2025 - 11:12am

China's Fearsome Bird: Gigantoraptor erlianensis

The Paleontologist community in China and around the world are all aflutter over a recent find in ...

Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Feb 24 2009 - 4:16pm

Iceland's Magma Chambers

plates and exposes the inside of the Earth. Almost all mid-ocean ridges lie deep under water, but Iceland ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2008 - 10:09pm

The Wrong Kind of Snow

of all official excuses.  But it was true: fine, dry, powdery snow had indeed been sucked into the ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 21 2009 - 12:29pm

New Aerogel Improves Oil Spill Cleanup

clay and a bit of high-grade plastic they say will effectively clean up spills of all kinds of oils and ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2010 - 12:30pm

The real FINAL word on why there have been so many earthquakes lately

strike-slip fault and logic. But all is for naught- a brave attempt, my fellow Scientific Blogger, but you ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Apr 20 2010 - 9:11am

A Climate Science Balancing Act

scientific case for [many of the claims] is unsound and we are finding out all the time how unsound it is.” ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 30 2010 - 7:57pm

Scientists Mimic Chloroplasts- Meaning Solar Cells That Fix Themselves

a uniform alignment so that the reaction centers can all be exposed to sunlight at once, and they also act ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 5 2010 - 1:23pm

Big 6? Capitanian Extinction Gets New Evidence

out half of all species: The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction, the Triassic–Jurassic extinction, the ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2015 - 8:30am

Cold Houses Are Far More Likely To Kill Us Than Heat Waves

run all or most of the time. Once heating was turned off, draughts from badly sealed windows and ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 30 2017 - 3:17pm