Linguistics - Today
A major feature of the 'Manc' accent is disappearing - but not in North Manchester
A major feature of the 'Manc' accent is disappearing - but not in North Manchester
Event - Mar 24
The University of Valencia's Experimenta fair arrives with 66 science and technology projects
The University of Valencia's Experimenta fair arrives with 66 science and technology projects
Chemistry - Mar 24
Isabel Abánades Lázaro receives a Junior Leader scholarship to synthesise more efficient MOF materials on demand
Isabel Abánades Lázaro receives a Junior Leader scholarship to synthesise more efficient MOF materials on demand
Health - Mar 24
Opinion: COVID pandemic: three years on and nobody wants to talk about it - here's why we should
Opinion: COVID pandemic: three years on and nobody wants to talk about it - here's why we should
Social Sciences - Mar 24
The University of Sussex launches UK's first centre on the study of kindness
The University of Sussex launches UK's first centre on the study of kindness
Research management - Mar 24
The University of Valencia increases the number of citations of scientific articles by 10.42% in the last year
The University of Valencia increases the number of citations of scientific articles by 10.42% in the last year
Innovation - Mar 24
Brussels now hosts a state-of-the-art public-oriented AI Test & Experience Center
Brussels now hosts a state-of-the-art public-oriented AI Test & Experience Center
Health - Mar 24
Earlier disclosure of COVID-19 origins could have saved us three years of political quarrelling
Earlier disclosure of COVID-19 origins could have saved us three years of political quarrelling
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Earth Sciences - Environment - 23.03.2023 
Feature: UCL leads first expedition to remote island’s lava lake
A team led by Dr Emma Nicholson climbed the summit of an active volcano on a remote, sub-Antarctic island, confirming the existence of a lava lake within its crater. Now they're back, analysing their data to better understand volcanoes and their environmental impacts. Mount Michael is a volcano shrouded in mystery.
Earth Sciences - Environment - 21.03.2023
Environment - Earth Sciences - 20.03.2023
Astronomy / Space Science - Earth Sciences - 16.03.2023 
Prototype telescope designed by Lawrence Livermore researchers launched to the International Space Station
A prototype telescope designed and built by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers has been launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., to the International Space Station (ISS). Known as the Stellar Occultation Hypertemporal Imaging Payload (SOHIP), the telescope uses LLNL patented-monolithic optics technology on a gimbal to observe and measure atmospheric gravity waves and turbulence.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 16.03.2023
Environment - Earth Sciences - 15.03.2023
Environment - Earth Sciences - 10.03.2023 
Students want to invite the ocean on EPFL campus
To build awareness about the importance of oceans, Sailowtech, a student association, has launched a project to develop low-tech methods for collecting data at sea.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 08.03.2023 
University of Toronto grad student tracks 70 years of snow and ice data in the High Arctic
Brianna Lane , a second-year master's student studying physical geography at the University of Toronto Mississauga, is developing an accessible method for snow and ice data quantification using groun
Life Sciences - Earth Sciences - 08.03.2023 
The miniature melo ’Micromelo undatus’, finalist in the Mollusc of the Year competition
Recerca Micromelo undatus , a small snail that inhabits shallow waters, is one of the five finalists in the Mollusc of the Yea r contest, an international competition in which scientific teams from all over the world compete with different proposals to sequence the genome of these invertebrates.
Earth Sciences - Architecture - 07.03.2023 
Knowing where earthquakes will cause damage
The Swiss Seismological Service at ETH Zurich has just introduced the first seismic risk model for Switzerland.
Earth Sciences - Environment - 03.03.2023
Environment - Earth Sciences - 02.03.2023
Environment - Earth Sciences - 02.03.2023 
Wisconsin cave holds tantalizing clues to ancient climate changes, future shifts
Even in their dark isolation from the atmosphere above, caves can hold a rich archive of local climate conditions and how they've shifted over the eons. Formed over tens of thousands of years, speleothems - rock formations unique to caves better known as stalagmites and stalactites - hold secrets to the ancient environments from which they formed.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 27.02.2023 
A looming water crisis at the world’s highest glacier
Climate change is hitting the hardest in the world's mountain ranges. We learn how Leeds glaciologist Professor Duncan Quincey is helping locals at the world's highest glacier.
Social Sciences - Earth Sciences - 23.02.2023
Astronomy / Space Science - Earth Sciences - 23.02.2023 
Dynamic NASA-Built Weather Sensors Enlisted to Track Tropical Cyclones
Known as COWVR and TEMPEST, the duo is demonstrating that smaller, less expensive science instruments can play an important role in weather forecasting. NASA recently built two weather instruments to test the potential of small, low-cost sensors to do some of the work of bulkier, pricier satellites.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 17.02.2023
Earth Sciences - Environment - 17.02.2023
Earth Sciences - Physics - 15.02.2023
Earth Sciences - 14.02.2023
Environment - Earth Sciences - 14.02.2023 
An atmospheric researcher with his feet firmly on the ground
Atmospheric chemist Thomas Peter retired at the end of January. A profile of a man who taught us about the properties and processes of suspended particles and helped shape the second-largest department at ETH Zurich.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 06.02.2023
Astronomy / Space Science - Earth Sciences - 02.02.2023 
’Astronauts will be acting as field researchers again’
Harald Hiesinger talks about the European Space Agency's -PANGAEA- training programme and about his job as a course instructor In a few years' time, man wants to return to the Moon.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 31.01.2023 
Could the lack of snow signal drought in 2023?
The snowfall level is rising, and the amount of snow falling - if any - is less than usual. As a result, summer and autumn droughts are becoming more frequent.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 31.01.2023 
Researching, learning and adapting
One of the greatest unknowns in climate change is the question of how particulate matter affects clouds. Yu Wang is using machine learning and satellite data to investigate the surprising role of these tiny particles in the atmosphere. In autumn 2014, Iceland's Holuhraun volcano erupted, spewing daily about 120,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide into the air at its peak.
Earth Sciences - 31.01.2023
Earth Sciences - 31.01.2023
Astronomy / Space Science - Earth Sciences - 28.01.2023 
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes Mars Sample Depot
Ten sample tubes, capturing an amazing variety of Martian geology, have been deposited on Mars' surface so they could be studied on Earth in the future. Less than six weeks after it began , construction of the first sample depot on another world is complete. Confirmation that NASA's Perseverance Mars rover successfully dropped the 10th and final tube planned for the depot was received around 5 p.m. PST (8 p.m. EST) Sunday, Jan.
Earth Sciences - 27.01.2023
Earth Sciences - Astronomy / Space Science - 25.01.2023 
Satellite Data Shows Sustained Severe Drought in Europe
By Falko Schoklitsch Europe lacks groundwater - a lot of groundwater. The continent has already been suffering from a severe drought since 2018.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 23.01.2023 
The man who thinks big
Christophe Girot brought landscape architecture into the digital world and taught a generation of architects how to think on a larger scale.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 20.01.2023
Earth Sciences - Environment - 19.01.2023
Environment - Earth Sciences - 17.01.2023
Earth Sciences - 17.01.2023 
Deep-sea devices ’hear’ earthquakes, singing whales and an exploding ship
Explosions from a sinking ship are among the unexpected sounds detected by 50 highly sensitive seismometers placed on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean as part of an international collaboration led by UCL researcher Professor Ana Ferreira. The seismometers, which have now been collected after spending a year at the bottom of the ocean, record the Earth's ground motions on the sea floor and thus capture the Earth's "pulse".
Earth Sciences - History / Archeology - 11.01.2023 
Mainz University contributes to recent discovery of the temple of Poseidon located at the Kleidi site near Samikon in Greece
Natural Hazard Research and Geoarchaeology team of JGU is investigating coastal developments in Western Greece over the last 11,600 years The ancient Greek historian Strabo referred to the presence of an important shrine located on the west coast of the Peloponnese some 2,000 years ago. Remains of such an Archaic temple have now been uncovered at the Kleidi site near Samikon, which presumably once formed part of the sanctuary of Poseidon.
Earth Sciences - Astronomy / Space Science - 11.01.2023 
NASA Scientists and Satellites Make Sense of Earth’s Subtle Motions
What can hidden motions underground tell us about earthquakes, eruptions, and even climate change? NASA scientists are using data gathered 400 miles above Earth to find out. Creeping, rising, falling, slipping - some parts of Earth are in perpetual motion. The movements are usually too tiny for human senses to notice, but they offer clues about more significant changes happening inside volcanoes, along fault lines, and where tectonic plates meet and clash.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 11.01.2023
Earth Sciences - Environment - 10.01.2023
Astronomy / Space Science - Earth Sciences - 28.12.2022
Astronomy / Space Science - Earth Sciences - 21.12.2022 
NASA’s InSight Lander has retired
The lander's team has tried to contact the spacecraft twice without response, leading them to conclude it has run out of energy. NASA's InSight mission has ended after four years of collecting unique science on Mars.
Earth Sciences - Career - 20.12.2022
Physics - Earth Sciences - 20.12.2022 
Measure deviations of gravity in billionths
Researchers from the University of Bonn install extremely sensitive measuring instrument at Todenfeld Observatory Researchers at the University of Bonn have installed a superconducting gravimeter at the Todenfeld observatory a few kilometers from the town of Rheinbach.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 19.12.2022
Earth Sciences - Environment - 13.12.2022
Environment - Earth Sciences - 09.12.2022
Earth Sciences - Computer Science - 08.12.2022
Environment - Earth Sciences - 06.12.2022 
Enhancing and protecting Canada’s carbon stocks is essential but insufficient to meet GHG emission targets: expert panel report
Enhancing and protecting Canada's carbon stocks is essential but insufficient to meet GHG emission targets: expert panel report Enhancing carbon storage in natural ecosystems could put a small but si
Environment - Earth Sciences - 06.12.2022
Environment - Earth Sciences - 05.12.2022
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A team led by Dr Emma Nicholson climbed the summit of an active volcano on a remote, sub-Antarctic island, confirming the existence of a lava lake within its crater. Now they're back, analysing their data to better understand volcanoes and their environmental impacts. Mount Michael is a volcano shrouded in mystery.
Why autumn isn’t a good time to predict if El Nińo is coming
Dr Nandini Ramesh, a Research Associate in the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Science and Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO Data61 reveals why we can't predict El Nińo after three consecutive La Nińa years.
Dr Nandini Ramesh, a Research Associate in the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Science and Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO Data61 reveals why we can't predict El Nińo after three consecutive La Nińa years.
National Geographic Society and Utrecht University Launch World Water Map
Today, the National Geographic Society launched the World Water Map as part of its five-year World Freshwater Initiative to better understand developing freshwater shortages around the world and inspire sustainable action.
Today, the National Geographic Society launched the World Water Map as part of its five-year World Freshwater Initiative to better understand developing freshwater shortages around the world and inspire sustainable action.
A prototype telescope designed and built by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers has been launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., to the International Space Station (ISS). Known as the Stellar Occultation Hypertemporal Imaging Payload (SOHIP), the telescope uses LLNL patented-monolithic optics technology on a gimbal to observe and measure atmospheric gravity waves and turbulence.
Harnessing Earth’s natural cycles to reverse climate change
On average, fossil fuel emissions do not alter the planet's temperature for a full decade after being emitted.Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and the resulting repercussions will continue to increase, even if we stopemissions entirely today.
On average, fossil fuel emissions do not alter the planet's temperature for a full decade after being emitted.Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and the resulting repercussions will continue to increase, even if we stopemissions entirely today.
«Using creative methods to look for solutions»
Manuela Brunner leads the new Hydrology & Climate Impacts in Mountain Regions research group at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF.
Manuela Brunner leads the new Hydrology & Climate Impacts in Mountain Regions research group at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF.
To build awareness about the importance of oceans, Sailowtech, a student association, has launched a project to develop low-tech methods for collecting data at sea.
Brianna Lane , a second-year master's student studying physical geography at the University of Toronto Mississauga, is developing an accessible method for snow and ice data quantification using groun
Recerca Micromelo undatus , a small snail that inhabits shallow waters, is one of the five finalists in the Mollusc of the Yea r contest, an international competition in which scientific teams from all over the world compete with different proposals to sequence the genome of these invertebrates.
The Swiss Seismological Service at ETH Zurich has just introduced the first seismic risk model for Switzerland.
Unique hybrid reefs deployed off Miami Beach
The first piece of a series of concrete structures was lowered into the water off the coast of Miami Beach on Wednesday morning, a massive crane on the deck of a floating barge hoisting the unit into the air and sinking it to the seabed. During the next six hours, crewmembers aboard the barge would repeat that process until the structures, some stacked on top of each other, were settled on the seafloor, 14 feet below the surface.
The first piece of a series of concrete structures was lowered into the water off the coast of Miami Beach on Wednesday morning, a massive crane on the deck of a floating barge hoisting the unit into the air and sinking it to the seabed. During the next six hours, crewmembers aboard the barge would repeat that process until the structures, some stacked on top of each other, were settled on the seafloor, 14 feet below the surface.
Even in their dark isolation from the atmosphere above, caves can hold a rich archive of local climate conditions and how they've shifted over the eons. Formed over tens of thousands of years, speleothems - rock formations unique to caves better known as stalagmites and stalactites - hold secrets to the ancient environments from which they formed.
Climate change is hitting the hardest in the world's mountain ranges. We learn how Leeds glaciologist Professor Duncan Quincey is helping locals at the world's highest glacier.
Known as COWVR and TEMPEST, the duo is demonstrating that smaller, less expensive science instruments can play an important role in weather forecasting. NASA recently built two weather instruments to test the potential of small, low-cost sensors to do some of the work of bulkier, pricier satellites.
Record-low Great Lakes ice coverage: U-M experts can discuss
EXPERTS ADVISORY The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed on Friday that Great Lakes ice coverage reached a record low for this time of year.
EXPERTS ADVISORY The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed on Friday that Great Lakes ice coverage reached a record low for this time of year.
Lake Superior researcher helps communities better understand harmful algal blooms
Do blooms also like it cold? Lake Superior researcher and international team of scientists help communities better understand harmful algal blooms. Research published in the scientific journal Limnology and Oceanography Letters and led by scientist Dr. Kait Reinl, Research Coordinator at the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve in Superior, WI, challenges current understandings of harmful algae blooms and may help communities better prepare for them.
Do blooms also like it cold? Lake Superior researcher and international team of scientists help communities better understand harmful algal blooms. Research published in the scientific journal Limnology and Oceanography Letters and led by scientist Dr. Kait Reinl, Research Coordinator at the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve in Superior, WI, challenges current understandings of harmful algae blooms and may help communities better prepare for them.
Civil engineer Jonathan Stewart on the earthquake in Turkey and Syria
Science + Technology UCLA Engineering The devastating earthquake in Turkey on Feb. 6 has claimed the lives of more than 36,000 people and flattened thousands of buildings across southern Turkey and northern Syria.
Science + Technology UCLA Engineering The devastating earthquake in Turkey on Feb. 6 has claimed the lives of more than 36,000 people and flattened thousands of buildings across southern Turkey and northern Syria.
Atmospheric chemist Thomas Peter retired at the end of January. A profile of a man who taught us about the properties and processes of suspended particles and helped shape the second-largest department at ETH Zurich.
Harald Hiesinger talks about the European Space Agency's -PANGAEA- training programme and about his job as a course instructor In a few years' time, man wants to return to the Moon.
The snowfall level is rising, and the amount of snow falling - if any - is less than usual. As a result, summer and autumn droughts are becoming more frequent.
One of the greatest unknowns in climate change is the question of how particulate matter affects clouds. Yu Wang is using machine learning and satellite data to investigate the surprising role of these tiny particles in the atmosphere. In autumn 2014, Iceland's Holuhraun volcano erupted, spewing daily about 120,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide into the air at its peak.
Students a primary part of $6.74 million experiment
They were treated as equals, not underlings.
They were treated as equals, not underlings.
Buoys play pivotal role to improve coastal weather forecasting
From the deck of the research vessel Neil Armstrong, oceanographic researchers deployed the massive air-sea interaction spar (ASIS) buoys off the coast of Santa Rosa Beach in late January, watching as the instrument-laden devices began to float upright in Florida's northern Gulf of Mexico waters.
From the deck of the research vessel Neil Armstrong, oceanographic researchers deployed the massive air-sea interaction spar (ASIS) buoys off the coast of Santa Rosa Beach in late January, watching as the instrument-laden devices began to float upright in Florida's northern Gulf of Mexico waters.
Ten sample tubes, capturing an amazing variety of Martian geology, have been deposited on Mars' surface so they could be studied on Earth in the future. Less than six weeks after it began , construction of the first sample depot on another world is complete. Confirmation that NASA's Perseverance Mars rover successfully dropped the 10th and final tube planned for the depot was received around 5 p.m. PST (8 p.m. EST) Sunday, Jan.
By Falko Schoklitsch Europe lacks groundwater - a lot of groundwater. The continent has already been suffering from a severe drought since 2018.
Christophe Girot brought landscape architecture into the digital world and taught a generation of architects how to think on a larger scale.
Explosions from a sinking ship are among the unexpected sounds detected by 50 highly sensitive seismometers placed on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean as part of an international collaboration led by UCL researcher Professor Ana Ferreira. The seismometers, which have now been collected after spending a year at the bottom of the ocean, record the Earth's ground motions on the sea floor and thus capture the Earth's "pulse".
Natural Hazard Research and Geoarchaeology team of JGU is investigating coastal developments in Western Greece over the last 11,600 years The ancient Greek historian Strabo referred to the presence of an important shrine located on the west coast of the Peloponnese some 2,000 years ago. Remains of such an Archaic temple have now been uncovered at the Kleidi site near Samikon, which presumably once formed part of the sanctuary of Poseidon.
What can hidden motions underground tell us about earthquakes, eruptions, and even climate change? NASA scientists are using data gathered 400 miles above Earth to find out. Creeping, rising, falling, slipping - some parts of Earth are in perpetual motion. The movements are usually too tiny for human senses to notice, but they offer clues about more significant changes happening inside volcanoes, along fault lines, and where tectonic plates meet and clash.
Looking to the past to prepare for an uncertain future
Using sand and rock, MIT senior Aviva Intveld tells stories of ancient climates. Aviva Intveld, an MIT senior majoring in Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences, is accustomed to city life.
Using sand and rock, MIT senior Aviva Intveld tells stories of ancient climates. Aviva Intveld, an MIT senior majoring in Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences, is accustomed to city life.
A habitable planet
Life has existed on Earth for billions of years. Stabilising mechanisms have helped our planet remain habitable to this day.
Life has existed on Earth for billions of years. Stabilising mechanisms have helped our planet remain habitable to this day.
The lander's team has tried to contact the spacecraft twice without response, leading them to conclude it has run out of energy. NASA's InSight mission has ended after four years of collecting unique science on Mars.
Research DIRCOM AlpSatellites: Managing the transition to hybrid work and satellite offices to revitalize remote mountain areas
Aix-Marseille Université joined the Interreg Alpine Space project "AlpSatellites", co-funded by the EU.
Aix-Marseille Université joined the Interreg Alpine Space project "AlpSatellites", co-funded by the EU.
Researchers from the University of Bonn install extremely sensitive measuring instrument at Todenfeld Observatory Researchers at the University of Bonn have installed a superconducting gravimeter at the Todenfeld observatory a few kilometers from the town of Rheinbach.
Making waves: Oceanographer braves danger to unlock secrets of the sea
The powerful swells can break a container ship in half. Lisa Beal had heard mariners talk about the force of such waves, but she never really believed them, dismissing their accounts as tall sea tales.
The powerful swells can break a container ship in half. Lisa Beal had heard mariners talk about the force of such waves, but she never really believed them, dismissing their accounts as tall sea tales.
COP 27: A Mixed Bag
Développement durable On the occasion of World Climate Day, physicist Davide Faranda, at the Environmental Transition Institute at Sorbonne University, looks back at the mixed results of COP 27 held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
Développement durable On the occasion of World Climate Day, physicist Davide Faranda, at the Environmental Transition Institute at Sorbonne University, looks back at the mixed results of COP 27 held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
Enhancing and protecting Canada's carbon stocks is essential but insufficient to meet GHG emission targets: expert panel report Enhancing carbon storage in natural ecosystems could put a small but si
Research from SFU scientists informs climate change mitigation report
SFU professors Kirsten Zickfeld and Karen Kohfeld are part of an expert panel contributing to a new report released this week investigating the potential contribution of nature-based climate solutions (NBCS) to meeting Canada's climate change mitigation commitments. Zickfeld, Kohfeld and other contributing researchers comprise the Expert Panel on Canada's Carbon Sink Potential from the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA).
SFU professors Kirsten Zickfeld and Karen Kohfeld are part of an expert panel contributing to a new report released this week investigating the potential contribution of nature-based climate solutions (NBCS) to meeting Canada's climate change mitigation commitments. Zickfeld, Kohfeld and other contributing researchers comprise the Expert Panel on Canada's Carbon Sink Potential from the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA).
Linguistics - Today
A major feature of the 'Manc' accent is disappearing - but not in North Manchester
A major feature of the 'Manc' accent is disappearing - but not in North Manchester
Event - Mar 24
The University of Valencia's Experimenta fair arrives with 66 science and technology projects
The University of Valencia's Experimenta fair arrives with 66 science and technology projects
Chemistry - Mar 24
Isabel Abánades Lázaro receives a Junior Leader scholarship to synthesise more efficient MOF materials on demand
Isabel Abánades Lázaro receives a Junior Leader scholarship to synthesise more efficient MOF materials on demand
Health - Mar 24
Opinion: COVID pandemic: three years on and nobody wants to talk about it - here's why we should
Opinion: COVID pandemic: three years on and nobody wants to talk about it - here's why we should
Social Sciences - Mar 24
The University of Sussex launches UK's first centre on the study of kindness
The University of Sussex launches UK's first centre on the study of kindness
Research management - Mar 24
The University of Valencia increases the number of citations of scientific articles by 10.42% in the last year
The University of Valencia increases the number of citations of scientific articles by 10.42% in the last year
Innovation - Mar 24
Brussels now hosts a state-of-the-art public-oriented AI Test & Experience Center
Brussels now hosts a state-of-the-art public-oriented AI Test & Experience Center
Health - Mar 24
Earlier disclosure of COVID-19 origins could have saved us three years of political quarrelling
Earlier disclosure of COVID-19 origins could have saved us three years of political quarrelling