On April 13, 2029, a chunk of rock roughly the size of the Eiffel Tower will thread the gap between Earth and the ring of communications satellites that orbit our planet. The asteroid, named 99942 ...

Standing at the rim of the Grand Canyon taking selfies is fine, but it’s like going to a concert and staying in the parking ...

Ancient charcoal fossils reveal that massive wildfires swept across Earth’s forests 237 million years ago, reshaping our ...

Some 80 million years ago, the late Cretaceous oceans were patrolled by 17-meter mosasaurs, long-necked plesiosaurs, and ...

The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...

Scientists have discovered a Jurassic tectonic plate boundary that could help to predict what the planet might look like ...

To address the limited flexibility in power flow control of flexible traction power supply system (FTPSS), this paper proposes a multi-time scale power control method for traction substation (TS) ...

Scientists have mapped how Earth’s deepest mantle is being deformed—and the results point to long-lost tectonic plates buried ...

A new study identifies oroclinal bending as the trigger for lithospheric foundering and surface uplift. It opens fresh questions about how such “intracontinental” mountains may have shaped Earth’s ...

Abstract: Leaf Area Index (LAI) is a key parameter in analyzing land-atmosphere processes. Several LAI products with different spatial resolutions have been generated using physical methods, or ...