earth science

She and her team flew these drones while they were standing inside the crater to compare faraway atmospheric…

The rise of powerful new technology means that humanity must confront the risk of its own demise. The invention of…

By the early ’90s, ecologists had amassed enough time-series data sets on species populations and enough computing…

“Each one of those kinds of pyrite is telling us something different about our planet, its origin, about life, and…

Around 2030, the Landsat program will launch its next satellite, called Landsat Next. It will bravely break from…

This spring, when the teams submitted their results to IARPA, evaluator teams graded how well each one did. In…

Start at the center, with the sun. Our middle-aged star may be more placid than most, but it is otherwise…

Ants, as a group, are creatures of habit. While an individual’s path isn’t certain, biologists who have spent a lot…

Just how big was the January eruption of the Hunga-Tonga volcano? Four months of intensive science has only bumped…

Seismic waves from a big quake are easy to see—think of the classic image of a seismograph, pencil scratching out…