Researchers have analyzed the shifting patterns of entire dune fields on Earth and Mars, as seen from orbit, and found they are a direct signature of recent environmental change. This new tool can be ...

Increasing the surface area when plasma and water interact could help scale up a technology that destroys contaminants such ...

A new study published recently in the journal Nature Geoscience looks at the connection between Atlantic Ocean currents and our planet’s climate history. Led by researchers at Columbia University's ...

The lack of progress in environmental reclamation of decommissioned oil/gas well pads is contributing to a legacy problem for oil/gas and environmental interests. Recent scientific and newspaper ...

Environment is not the only factor in shaping regulatory patterns -- and it might not even be the primary factor, according to a new Rice University study that looks at how cells' protein networks ...

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Late in the Middle Ages, Italian stargazers gave a name to the annual contagion that rolled around each year like clockwork. It was a name that stuck, and to this day is known as influenza. Medieval ...

(A–B) Locations of mapped dune fields on (A) Earth and (B) Mars. (C–D) Examples of mapping and interaction identification on (C) linear dunes in Tanami Desert, Australia, and (D) crescentic dunes at ...