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Space

Pluto ‘kissed’ its moon and captured it in orbit

Amit Malewar

The formation of Pluto and its largest moon.

Tundra landscape
Environment

Tree planting at high latitudes will accelerate global warming

Jay Kakade

While tree planting is a popular and effective way to mitigate climate change, it's not always effective. A group of scientists at the University...

Sea waves background with a birds and sunset illustration
Environment

The cool ocean skin allows oceans to absorb more carbon dioxide

Pranjal Malewar

These findings could enhance global carbon assessments.

Dr Alexander Cheesman tending seedlings at the TropOz research facility established by Exeter and James Cook universities.
Environment

Ozone pollution reduces new yearly growth in tropical forests

Ashwini Sakharkar

This leaves an estimated 290 million tonnes of carbon uncaptured each year.

Colored political world map
Earth

How did Earth’s continents form? Study adds new information to the debate

Pranjal Malewar

Formation of magmas thought to hold clues.

Venus
Space

Venus may share a surprising geological history with Earth

Amit Malewar

Venus’ “continents” suggest surprising link to early Earth.

Delve into the mysteries of the deep sea trenches generative ai
Earth

Ocean depths produce ‘Dark Oxygen’

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Researchers find oxygen production 13,000 feet below the ocean's surface, challenging the idea that only photosynthetic organisms make Earth's oxygen. Minerals at the deep...

Ice on the black beach
Environment

How climate change is altering the Earth’s rotation and day length

Ashwini Sakharkar

The speed of rotation will now also depend much more on the climate.

First meteoroid impact detected by NASA’s InSight mission; the image was taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera.
Space

Basketball-sized meteorite hit Mars almost daily

Amit Malewar

Seismological data from NASA's Mars InSight lander to derive a new impact rate for meteorite strikes on Mars.

Pooled meltwater and slush on the Bach Ice Shelf. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data, processed by Rebecca Dell.
Science

AI reveals Antarctic ice shelves hold twice meltwater than thought

Ashwini Sakharkar

Researchers used artificial intelligence techniques to map slush on Antarctic ice shelves.

water drops as droplet shape on blue background
Environment

When Earth got it’s freshwater

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Ancient water cycle: A 4-billion-year origin.

Magnificent scenery on the Nile River Sunset Aswan Egypt
Environment

Scientists discovered how the river Nile evolved over the past 11,500 years

Pranjal Malewar

Crucial shift in River Nile’s evolution during ancient Egypt discovered.

moon of saturn on space bacground
Space

Enceladus’s plume strength may be due to the movement of tiger-stripe faults

Amit Malewar

Enceladus spills its guts through strike–slip motion.

gravity gradient map
Space

How did the moon turn itself inside out?

Amit Malewar

More of a choose-your-own adventure novel.

Free photo moon
Space

Study cracked a vital process in Moon rock formation

Amit Malewar

Solving major puzzle in lunar geology.

world open... showing lava and stuff.
Earth

Scientists found a distinct, thin layer above Earth’s core

Pranjal Malewar

Earth's surface water dives deep, transforming core's outer layer.

Image showing Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Environment

How capturing carbon in savannas can reduce global warming?

Vidya Nagalwade

Grasses play an important role in capturing carbon in tropical savannas.

Photo in action. throwing snow with shovel while cleaning backyard
Environment

Blowing snow’s impact on Arctic climate change

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Arctic warming caused by sea salt aerosols from blowing snow.

Image showing tibetuplift himalayas raimond.
Geology

Himalayas had a leg up before reaching the skies

Vidya Nagalwade

A new technique for measuring past topography.

Image showing Glacier cave.
Environment

Arctic glaciers reveal the source of methane

Vidya Nagalwade

Groundwater springs in arctic provide significant methane source.

Image showing global warming.
Environment

Anthropogenic Effects on climate change

Vidya Nagalwade

The climate impacts of anthropogenic aerosols and greenhouse gases using several climate models.

Image showing Coral image.
Geology

Exploring the history of ocean chemistry through deep-sea corals

Vidya Nagalwade

Ocean currents are not responsible for the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Image showing earth
Earth

Earth had a 19-hour rotation in the past, the study

Amit Malewar

19-hour days for a billion years of Earth's history.

Image showing mountains.
Environment

Researchers are exploring how mountains are built

Vidya Nagalwade

Why mountains form are deeper than previously thought?

Image showing modest moss.
Science

Modest moss can store billions of tons of carbon

Vidya Nagalwade

Plant life absorbs & transforms greenhouse gases to combat climate change..

Image showing CFC
Environment

Global emissions of several banned ozone-destroying chemicals are increasing

Vidya Nagalwade

Increased ozone-depleting chemicals due to Montreal Protocol loophole.

lunar surface water cycle
Space

New water reservoir found on Moon

Amit Malewar

Impact glass beads in Chang'e-5 (CE5) lunar soils contain...

large Quetzalpetlatl Corona located in Venus’ southern hemisphere
Space

Venus’s squishy surface shows signs of geothermal activity

Amit Malewar

Venus may be losing heat from geologic activity in regions called coronae.

Earth with the upper mantle
Science

A molten rock layer discovered hidden under Earth’s tectonic plates

Amit Malewar

The study might help settle a long-standing debate about how tectonic plates move.

460km-long river under the Antarctic ice sheet
Environment

Scientists discovered a river longer than Thames beneath the Antarctic ice sheet

Ashwini Sakharkar

An unexpected river under the Antarctic ice sheet affects the flow and melting of ice.

Recent Stories

A rare Pterosaur fossil has a Crocodile bite mark on its neck bone

Science

Exotic electron crystal uncovered in graphene

Quantum Physics

Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration releases new images of M87*

Space

New epilepsy tech enhances the accuracy of routine EEGs

Health

Fast radio burst found in outskirts of an ancient galaxy

Space