Earth Sciences
Earth science or geoscience is a widely embraced term for the fields of natural science related to the planet Earth. It is the branch of science dealing with the physical constitution of the earth and its atmosphere. Earth science is the study of our planet’s physical characteristics, from earthquakes to raindrops, and floods to fossils. Earth science can be considered to be a branch of planetary science, but with a much older history. “Earth science” is a broad term that encompasses four main branches of study, each of which is further broken down into more specialized fields.
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MAR 21, 2019Chemistry & Physics
MAR 21, 2019Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe just after hydrogen, but only making up 0.0005% of Earth's atmosphere because of its tendenc...Written By: Yin (Daniel) DuanMAR 20, 2019Earth & The Environment
MAR 20, 2019A small Southern California town is experiencing an extraordinary poppy super bloom, thanks to an unusually wet and cold winter. The hills surrounding Lake...Written By: Tiffany DazetMAR 20, 2019Earth & The Environment
MAR 20, 2019The U.K. is facing a severe water crisis. At the Waterwise Conference in London this week, Sir James Bevan—the chief executive of the Environment Age...Written By: Tiffany DazetMAR 20, 2019Plants & Animals
MAR 20, 2019A variety of different factors threaten many of the world's natural pollinators, and monarch butterflies are no exception to that statement. Conservati...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 20, 2019Space & Astronomy
MAR 20, 2019After launching the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission in September 2016, NASA set...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 20, 2019Earth & The Environment
MAR 20, 2019Wildlife tourism is increasing at an estimated 10% growth per year and in 2013 (the last year with full data) there were approximately 12 million wildlife ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 19, 2019Microbiology
MAR 19, 2019While every effort is made to ensure that the stuff we send into space is free of Earthly contamination, microorganisms have been detected on the ISS....Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 19, 2019Plants & Animals
MAR 19, 2019A plethora of the globe’s marine animals are in trouble, but one of the most notable is that of the Mediterranean monk seal, which the International...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 19, 2019Space & Astronomy
MAR 19, 2019Before NASA’s precedent-setting New Horizons spacecraft flew past Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) Ultima Thule on New Year’s Day, no one was entirely...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 18, 2019Plants & Animals
MAR 18, 2019It’s an unfortunate reality that the Earth’s vast oceans are littered with human-made trash and debris, much of which is comprised of plastic....Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 18, 2019Microbiology
MAR 18, 2019K. stuttgartiensis is a model anammox microorganism - it's an anaerobic bacterium that oxidizes ammonia / Image: Laura van Niftrik...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 18, 2019Genetics & Genomics
MAR 18, 2019Horseshoe crabs were once thought to be related to sand crabs, but there have been placed in the arachnid group....Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 17, 2019Space & Astronomy
MAR 17, 2019Studying forests and gauging their growth can be a grueling and tedious line of work, especially when mosquitoes are out in full-force. For this reason, sc...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 17, 2019Earth & The Environment
MAR 17, 2019New research published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society highlights the impact that coal-fired power stations have on rainfall pattern...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 16, 2019Chemistry & Physics
MAR 16, 2019In a recently published study, Princeton scientists claimed that they have sufficient evidence to conclude that asteroid alone did not kill all dinosaurs,...Written By: Yin (Daniel) DuanMAR 14, 2019Genetics & Genomics
MAR 14, 2019Researchers took a biomedical approach to examine the impact of two different pesticides on gene expression in bees....Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 13, 2019Plants & Animals
MAR 13, 2019Germany is home to a small species of nocturnal owl called the ‘little owl’ (Athene noctua), and while the German Red List recognizes the littl...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 12, 2019Space & Astronomy
MAR 12, 2019A Russian Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft is expected to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Thursday, March 14th, ferrying Expedition 59-60 to the International...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 12, 2019Space & Astronomy
MAR 12, 2019There’s been a lot of hype in the last couple of years in relation to colonizing Mars and building a permanent scientific research base there that co...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 11, 2019Space & Astronomy
MAR 11, 2019If you watch a lot of movies, then you’ve undoubtedly stumbled upon one about a fictitious ‘end of the world’ scenario involving a massiv...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 11, 2019Plants & Animals
MAR 11, 2019Bees are an essential constituent in the plethora of pollinating insects in existence today, and while there’s no arguing the fact that bee populatio...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 10, 2019Earth & The Environment
MAR 10, 2019The Great Blue Hole is more or less an underwater sinkhole that researchers have long wanted to know more about; that said, expedition teams geared up and...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 10, 2019Space & Astronomy
MAR 10, 2019The past week was a stressful one for SpaceX and NASA alike. It was just last Saturday that the commercial space company launched its first demonstration m...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 09, 2019Earth & The Environment
MAR 09, 2019In theory, biofuels are a sustainable alternative to oil and gas. In practice, however, they are expensive. With current extraction technologies, it takes ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 21, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
MAR 21, 2019
Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe just after hydrogen, but only making up 0.0005% of Earth's atmosphere because of its tendenc...
Written By:
Yin (Daniel) Duan
MAR 20, 2019
Earth & The Environment
MAR 20, 2019
A small Southern California town is experiencing an extraordinary poppy super bloom, thanks to an unusually wet and cold winter. The hills surrounding Lake...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
MAR 20, 2019
Earth & The Environment
MAR 20, 2019
The U.K. is facing a severe water crisis. At the Waterwise Conference in London this week, Sir James Bevan—the chief executive of the Environment Age...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
MAR 20, 2019
Plants & Animals
MAR 20, 2019
A variety of different factors threaten many of the world's natural pollinators, and monarch butterflies are no exception to that statement. Conservati...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 20, 2019
Space & Astronomy
MAR 20, 2019
After launching the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission in September 2016, NASA set...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 20, 2019
Earth & The Environment
MAR 20, 2019
Wildlife tourism is increasing at an estimated 10% growth per year and in 2013 (the last year with full data) there were approximately 12 million wildlife ...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 19, 2019
Microbiology
MAR 19, 2019
While every effort is made to ensure that the stuff we send into space is free of Earthly contamination, microorganisms have been detected on the ISS....
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 19, 2019
Plants & Animals
MAR 19, 2019
A plethora of the globe’s marine animals are in trouble, but one of the most notable is that of the Mediterranean monk seal, which the International...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 19, 2019
Space & Astronomy
MAR 19, 2019
Before NASA’s precedent-setting New Horizons spacecraft flew past Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) Ultima Thule on New Year’s Day, no one was entirely...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 18, 2019
Plants & Animals
MAR 18, 2019
It’s an unfortunate reality that the Earth’s vast oceans are littered with human-made trash and debris, much of which is comprised of plastic....
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 18, 2019
Microbiology
MAR 18, 2019
K. stuttgartiensis is a model anammox microorganism - it's an anaerobic bacterium that oxidizes ammonia / Image: Laura van Niftrik...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 18, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
MAR 18, 2019
Horseshoe crabs were once thought to be related to sand crabs, but there have been placed in the arachnid group....
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 17, 2019
Space & Astronomy
MAR 17, 2019
Studying forests and gauging their growth can be a grueling and tedious line of work, especially when mosquitoes are out in full-force. For this reason, sc...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 17, 2019
Earth & The Environment
MAR 17, 2019
New research published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society highlights the impact that coal-fired power stations have on rainfall pattern...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 16, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
MAR 16, 2019
In a recently published study, Princeton scientists claimed that they have sufficient evidence to conclude that asteroid alone did not kill all dinosaurs,...
Written By:
Yin (Daniel) Duan
MAR 14, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
MAR 14, 2019
Researchers took a biomedical approach to examine the impact of two different pesticides on gene expression in bees....
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 13, 2019
Plants & Animals
MAR 13, 2019
Germany is home to a small species of nocturnal owl called the ‘little owl’ (Athene noctua), and while the German Red List recognizes the littl...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 12, 2019
Space & Astronomy
MAR 12, 2019
A Russian Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft is expected to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Thursday, March 14th, ferrying Expedition 59-60 to the International...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 12, 2019
Space & Astronomy
MAR 12, 2019
There’s been a lot of hype in the last couple of years in relation to colonizing Mars and building a permanent scientific research base there that co...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 11, 2019
Space & Astronomy
MAR 11, 2019
If you watch a lot of movies, then you’ve undoubtedly stumbled upon one about a fictitious ‘end of the world’ scenario involving a massiv...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 11, 2019
Plants & Animals
MAR 11, 2019
Bees are an essential constituent in the plethora of pollinating insects in existence today, and while there’s no arguing the fact that bee populatio...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 10, 2019
Earth & The Environment
MAR 10, 2019
The Great Blue Hole is more or less an underwater sinkhole that researchers have long wanted to know more about; that said, expedition teams geared up and...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 10, 2019
Space & Astronomy
MAR 10, 2019
The past week was a stressful one for SpaceX and NASA alike. It was just last Saturday that the commercial space company launched its first demonstration m...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 09, 2019
Earth & The Environment
MAR 09, 2019
In theory, biofuels are a sustainable alternative to oil and gas. In practice, however, they are expensive. With current extraction technologies, it takes ...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
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