Boreal Forest Fires Could Release Deep Soil Carbon
The 2014 fires in Canada’s Northwest Territories burned more than 7 million acres of boreal forest, mainly comprised of cone-bearing...
Amazon Rainforest Absorbing Less Carbon Than Expected
View from the top of a measurement tower, where researchers monitor critical forest canopy processes such as photosynthesis, plant...
GRACE-FO Shows the Weight of Midwestern Floods
North America was almost entirely above its long-term average in mass in May 2019, due to Midwestern flooding, with the runoff raising...
A battery-free sensor for underwater exploration
A battery-free underwater “piezoelectric” sensor invented by MIT researchers transmits data by absorbing or reflecting sound waves...
NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface
This artist's illustration depicts the exoplanet LHS 3844b, which is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits an M dwarf star...
Rocky, Earth-sized exoplanet is missing an atmosphere
Artist’s rendering of the surface of LHS 3844b, a planet that has been found to have no atmosphere....
Physicists design an experiment to pin down the origin of the elements
A new experiment designed by MIT physicists may help to pin down the rate at which huge, massive...
Scientists Observe the Explosion of a Monster Star Requiring New Supernova Mechanism
