These are a bit like hotels for chemicals, said Heiner Linke, who chairs the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. Or perhaps self-assembling houses, added Olof Ramstrom, another committee member. Or the ...
Heather Handley receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Heather is a General Governing Councillor of the Geological Society of Australia and Co-Founder and President of the Women in ...
Few natural phenomena catch our attention like volcanic eruptions. There is something staggeringly awe-inspiring about this primordial geological event. However, there is still much we do not know ...
Studying volcanos is like detective work. The processes that kick-start an eruption occur deep underground and are impossible to observe directly, so volcanologists look for clues on the surface and ...
Teresa Ubide works for The University of Queensland. She receives funding from the Australian Research Council, AuScope-NCRIS, and The University of Queensland. Alice MacDonald is a PhD Student at The ...
Even when the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull was shooting more than 500 tons of ash per second into the air last month, children somewhere surely were parading around with festive funnels of ...
The first 1.5 billion years of Earth’s evolution is subject to considerable uncertainty due to the lack of any significant rock record prior to four billion years ago and a very limited record until ...
Scientists discover 11-million-year-old space glass fragments in Australia proving previously unknown ancient asteroid impact ...
A large planetlike object out in the realm of Pluto shows signs of either a relatively recent collision or perhaps volcanic activity, astronomers said Wednesday. If proven out, it would be the first ...