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Using math to significantly improve modeling of surface and subsurface water flow in complex landscapes

Understanding how surface and subsurface waters are affected by drought, fire, warming, and increased human demand requires computer models that can represent complex environments.

Bamboo fibres offer strong, green manufacturing alternative

Here are some little known facts about bamboo: bamboo grows fast—really fast. It has an amazing regenerative quality.

Earthquake depth impacts potential tsunami threat

Earthquakes of similar magnitude can cause tsunamis of greatly varying sizes. This commonly observed, but not well-understood

IBM and Samsung team up to design vertical transport field effect transistors

Officials from IBM and Samsung announced at this years IEDM conference in San Francisco a collaboration on a new chip design that adds transistors vertically on a chip.

Mind-controlled robots now one step closer

Tetraplegic patients are prisoners of their own bodies, unable to speak or perform the slightest movement.

NASA scientist discusses Parkers journey to the sun

NASA set an out-of-this-world goal: to touch our sun. Sending a spacecraft to the fiery star at the center.

2021 Arctic Report Card reveals a (human) story of cascading disruptions, extreme events and global connections

The Arctic has long been portrayed as a distant end-of-the-Earth place, disconnected from everyday common experience. But as the planet rapidly warms, what happens in this icy region?

The recent killer tornados track is visible from space

During the night of December 10, 2021, severe weather tore through several US states, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky.

Powerful typhoon hits Philippines, nearly 100,000 evacuated

A powerful typhoon slammed into the southeastern Philippines on Thursday and was blowing across island provinces.

Rise in emissions of unregulated ozone destroying substance identified

New research, led by the University of Bristol and Peking University, has discovered that emissions coming from China of the ozone-destroying chemical, dichloromethane, have more than doubled over the last decade.

Study: Winter tornadoes to get more powerful as world warms

Nasty winter tornadoes—like the deadly ones last week that hit five states—are likely to be stronger and stay on the ground.

Researchers show why heat may make weather less predictable

A new Stanford University study shows rising temperatures may intensify the unpredictability of weather in Earths midlatitudes.

This season, give the gift of tech literacy—not addiction—along with that device

What do wireless speakers, streaming music subscriptions, smartphones and customized game controllers have in common? They are some of the best tech gifts for children and teens this year.

Magnetic domain wall devices closer to industrial reality

Magnetic domain wall devices have attracted great attention as a promising beyond-CMOS device concept for functional scaling.

The London Millennium Bridge wobble finally explained

An international team of engineers and mathematicians, led by Georgia State University in the United States and the University of Bristol.

Oceans could be harnessed to remove carbon from air, say US science leaders

The United States should undertake a major research program into how the oceans could be artificially harnessed to remove carbon dioxide from the air.

With climate change, avalanches are migrating upslope

We now know that the effects of climate change are particularly strong in mountain areas and cryosphere.

Faults in oceanic crust contribute to slow seismic waves

The natural structure of the rigid oceanic crust that forms a shell around Earth contains cracks and faults.

Seas are now rising higher than some buildings underground garages

Sea level rise has more consistently pushed underground water closer to the surface—sometimes reaching underground levels of coastal buildings, according to a new study.

Southwest France hit by flooding after heavy rains

Rivers overflowed their banks across a large swath of southwest France on Friday after heavy rains.

Fire hastens permafrost collapse in Arctic Alaska, study finds

Why climate change is the primary driver of permafrost degradation in Arctic Alaska.

New source of the strong greenhouse gas nitrous oxide found in Siberian permafrost

A previously unknown source of the strong greenhouse gas nitrous oxide has been found in East Siberian Yedoma permafrost. Published in Nature Communications today.

A tool to speed development of new solar cells

In the ongoing race to develop ever-better materials and configurations for solar cells, there are many variables that can be adjusted.

Physicists discover special transverse sound wave

Can you imagine sound traveling in the same way as light does? A research team discovered a new type of sound wave.

Simulations show how earthquake early warning might be improved for magnitude-9 earthquakes

When the next major earthquake hits the Pacific Northwest, a system launched last spring should give some advance warning, as emergency alerts go out and cell phones buzz.

Opinion: All fossil fuel advertisements should be banned

I think we should ban all fossil fuel advertisements, plain and simple. I know it sounds extreme.

Deep-learning model speeds extreme weather predictions

Researchers provide high-fidelity extreme weather predictions across the globe a full five days in advance.

A system for designing and training intelligent soft robots

Let us say you wanted to build the worlds best stair-climbing robot. You would need to optimize for both the brain and the body, perhaps by giving the bot some high-tech legs and feet.

Intel says plans to take car tech unit Mobileye public

Semiconductor giant Intel said it plans to list shares in its car technology arm Mobileye publicly in the United States.

American Airlines CEO to step down in March

Veteran American Airlines Chief Executive Doug Parker plans to step down in March and will be succeeded by his deputy.

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