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Atmospheric Sciences
Atmospheric Sciences: an umbrella term for the study of the Earth's atmosphere, its processes, the effects other systems have on the atmosphere, and the effects of the atmosphere on these other systems. Meteorology includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics with a major focus on weather forecasting. Climatology is the study of atmospheric changes that define average climates and their change over time, due to both natural and anthropogenic climate variability. Aeronomy is the study of the upper layers of the atmosphere, where dissociation and ionization are important. Atmospheric science has been extended to the field of planetary science and the study of the atmospheres of the planets of the solar system.
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MAR 07, 2022Space & Astronomy
Recently, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover snapped a photograph of a flower-like rock artifact on the surface of Mars. ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAR 05, 2022Space & Astronomy
Astronomers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently published the first global view of the atmosphere of an ex ...Written By: Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.FEB 20, 2022Space & Astronomy
Thanks to continuing technological advancements in exoplanet detection methods, their discoveries are becoming a common ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScFEB 18, 2022Space & Astronomy
February 18, 1930, is a truly historic day for science, as this was the day Pluto was officially discovered by Clyde W T ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScFEB 11, 2022Space & Astronomy
Mars, the fourth planet from our Sun. The Red Planet. From time immemorial, we have gazed at it in wonder and dreamed ab ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScFEB 03, 2022Space & Astronomy
Getting to Mars is hard. Really hard. Really, really hard. It’s so unbelievably hard, it takes years—often d ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 31, 2022Space & Astronomy
The planet Mars has always been known as a bone-dry world, incapable of possessing liquid water on its surface. This is ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 22, 2022Space & Astronomy
NASA's Curiosity rover helps to discover unique carbon signatures on the surface of Mars. Is this possible evidence for ...Written By: Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.JAN 22, 2022Space & Astronomy
Arriving at Jupiter in 2016, the NASA-funded Juno spacecraft has been beaming back the most detailed and jaw-dropping im ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 20, 2022Earth & The Environment
In a Perspective piece published this week in WIREs Climate Change, an international team of experts have decried solar ...Written By: Matthew LundyJAN 07, 2022Plants & Animals
Breaking heat records have become an increasingly common, and alarming, trend over the past couple decades. Temperatures ...Written By: Ryan VingumJAN 06, 2022Space & Astronomy
As it hurdles through space, NASA’s Webb telescope has successfully completed another step in its multi-month boot ...Written By: Matthew LundyJAN 06, 2022Space & Astronomy
The planet Venus is a hellish and inhospitable world. It has an average surface temperature of 737 K (464 ËšC, 867 ËšF) an ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 28, 2021Space & Astronomy
After a long series of delays and pushbacks, the James Webb Space Telescope successfully launched into space this past C ...Written By: Matthew LundyDEC 27, 2021Health & Medicine
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been in the news recently. The United States Environmental Protection Ag ...Written By: Hannah DanielDEC 26, 2021Space & Astronomy
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made a historic fly-by of the dwarf-planet Pluto on July 14, 2015, but even after s ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 21, 2021Microbiology
There have been a few mass extinction events on our planet. One of them was apparently prolonged by microbes that were s ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 21, 2021Clinical & Molecular DX
When air pollution levels soar, so do calls to emergency hotlines specifically for heart attacks, says a Ger ...Written By: Tara FernandesDEC 17, 2021Space & Astronomy
During a flyby of Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, the Juno spacecraft made a recording on June 7, 2021. The frequency of th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 15, 2021Space & Astronomy
Humanity, through the arm of NASA and John Hopkins University scientists, engineers, and support staff, has achieved a s ...Written By: Matthew LundyDEC 08, 2021Chemistry & Physics
One of the pivotal sets of data in understanding Earth's climate have been the EPICA ice cores from Antarctica, pieces o ...Written By: Matthew LundyDEC 06, 2021Technology
Oil spills at sea can be a devastating consequence of offshore drilling for fossil fuels. They can affect local plants a ...Written By: Ryan VingumDEC 01, 2021Space & Astronomy
When a small or medium-sized star reaches the end of its life, it becomes a white dwarf. Suns produce energy by fusing h ...Written By: Hannah DanielNOV 18, 2021Chemistry & Physics
Iron is an essential component of many specialized materials. In research, we subject it to extreme conditions daily to ...Written By: Hannah Daniel
MAR 07, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Recently, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover snapped a photograph of a flower-like rock artifact on the surface of Mars.
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAR 05, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently published the first global view of the atmosphere of an ex
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
FEB 20, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Thanks to continuing technological advancements in exoplanet detection methods, their discoveries are becoming a common
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 18, 2022
Space & Astronomy
February 18, 1930, is a truly historic day for science, as this was the day Pluto was officially discovered by Clyde W T
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 11, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Mars, the fourth planet from our Sun. The Red Planet. From time immemorial, we have gazed at it in wonder and dreamed ab
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 03, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Getting to Mars is hard. Really hard. Really, really hard. It’s so unbelievably hard, it takes years—often d
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 31, 2022
Space & Astronomy
The planet Mars has always been known as a bone-dry world, incapable of possessing liquid water on its surface. This is
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 22, 2022
Space & Astronomy
NASA's Curiosity rover helps to discover unique carbon signatures on the surface of Mars. Is this possible evidence for
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
JAN 22, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Arriving at Jupiter in 2016, the NASA-funded Juno spacecraft has been beaming back the most detailed and jaw-dropping im
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 20, 2022
Earth & The Environment
In a Perspective piece published this week in WIREs Climate Change, an international team of experts have decried solar
...
Written By:
Matthew Lundy
JAN 07, 2022
Plants & Animals
Breaking heat records have become an increasingly common, and alarming, trend over the past couple decades. Temperatures
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
JAN 06, 2022
Space & Astronomy
As it hurdles through space, NASA’s Webb telescope has successfully completed another step in its multi-month boot
...
Written By:
Matthew Lundy
JAN 06, 2022
Space & Astronomy
The planet Venus is a hellish and inhospitable world. It has an average surface temperature of 737 K (464 ËšC, 867 ËšF) an
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 28, 2021
Space & Astronomy
After a long series of delays and pushbacks, the James Webb Space Telescope successfully launched into space this past C
...
Written By:
Matthew Lundy
DEC 27, 2021
Health & Medicine
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been in the news recently. The United States Environmental Protection Ag
...
Written By:
Hannah Daniel
DEC 26, 2021
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made a historic fly-by of the dwarf-planet Pluto on July 14, 2015, but even after s
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 21, 2021
Microbiology
There have been a few mass extinction events on our planet. One of them was apparently prolonged by microbes that were s
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 21, 2021
Clinical & Molecular DX
When air pollution levels soar, so do calls to emergency hotlines specifically for heart attacks, says a Ger
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
DEC 17, 2021
Space & Astronomy
During a flyby of Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, the Juno spacecraft made a recording on June 7, 2021. The frequency of th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 15, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Humanity, through the arm of NASA and John Hopkins University scientists, engineers, and support staff, has achieved a s
...
Written By:
Matthew Lundy
DEC 08, 2021
Chemistry & Physics
One of the pivotal sets of data in understanding Earth's climate have been the EPICA ice cores from Antarctica, pieces o
...
Written By:
Matthew Lundy
DEC 06, 2021
Technology
Oil spills at sea can be a devastating consequence of offshore drilling for fossil fuels. They can affect local plants a
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
DEC 01, 2021
Space & Astronomy
When a small or medium-sized star reaches the end of its life, it becomes a white dwarf. Suns produce energy by fusing h
...
Written By:
Hannah Daniel
NOV 18, 2021
Chemistry & Physics
Iron is an essential component of many specialized materials. In research, we subject it to extreme conditions daily to
...
Written By:
Hannah Daniel