Volcanoes are often associated with destruction. Images of molten lava, towering ash clouds and communities fleeing eruptions dominate news coverage whenever a volcano awakens. Yet volcanoes are not ...

Scientists have made a perplexing discovery in Greenland’s ice sheet that challenges our understanding of the region’s geology and its connection to Earth’s formative processes. The new evidence ...

Leif Ristroph, a physicist and applied mathematician at New York University, was conducting experiments on how clay erodes in response to flowing water when he noticed tiny shapes emerging that ...

Polyester microdroplets, possible precursors to life, were formed from alpha-hydroxy acids (αHAs) in early Earth-like conditions even at low reaction volume, low reactant concentrations, and/or high ...

Oak Ridge scientist Forrest Hoffman explains how AI and supercomputers help predict Earth's complex climate systems.