Scientists have long been fascinated with Yellowstone National Park and the scientific playground it has provided the research community over the decades. Seismic tomography has played a key role in that research giving scientists insights into Yellowstone’s crustal magmatic system to understand the melt distribution in the subsurface and the current stage of the volcano’s […]
The Yellowstone Caldera, sometimes referred to as the Yellowstone Supervolcano, is a volcanic caldera and supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park in the Western United States. The caldera measures 43 by 28 miles (70 by 45 kilometers). Researcher’s expertise, energy, and empathy leave a legacy. Late MSU researcher Min Chen contributed to new seismic tomography of […]
Don’t worry, an eruption is not imminent. Research reveals magma activity beneath Mount Edgecumbe. According to a recent study from the Alaska Volcano Observatory, magma underneath the long-dormant Mount Edgecumbe volcano in Southeast Alaska has been moving upward through the Earth’s crust. The observatory’s innovative method may enable early identification of volcanic activity in Alaska. […]
The Southern Ocean’s vast shelves of floating ice appear to hide sprawling blooms of phytoplankton, a discovery that could significantly change our understanding of Antarctica’s marine ecosystem and how it might be impacted by climate change. Key to phytoplankton growth is photosynthesis, and key to photosynthesis is sunlight – and so up to this point […]
In 2006, Polish couple Marek and Małgorzata Rzewuski bought a house on the outskirts of Warsaw because they were expecting a child and “we wanted more space and our own garden”. Like hundreds of thousands of other Polish homebuyers at the time, they were advised by their bank to get a mortgage in Swiss francs […]
Fascinating photographs show a long-forgotten historic railway, almost two centuries old, which has been unearthed from beneath a market town. The railway, which was found in Huddersfield this week, was formerly used to harbour off-duty trains back in the 1800s. The structure consisted of train sheds and railway turn tables and was part of the Manchester to Huddersfield line. […]
Further evidence for the existence of water under the ice cap of the Martian south pole has been uncovered by a team of researchers led from the University of Cambridge. As on Earth, the so-called Red Planet has thick ice caps at both its north and south poles, with a combined volume that is roughly […]
Amazon, Borneo, Congo, Daintree. We know the names of many of the world’s largest or most famous rainforests. And many of us know about the world’s largest span of forests, the boreal forests stretching from Russia to Canada. But how many of us could name an underwater forest? Hidden underwater are huge kelp and seaweed […]
Ukraine’s “Kharkiv” army group destroyed the Russian “Tunguska” 2S6 air defence system with several strikes. In the footage, the vehicle is uncovered beneath some shrubbery, before Ukrainian forces then retreat to destroy it. The defence system blows up into a fireball as it is struck before plumes of white smoke billow from its destroyed framework. […]