Steady ‘winds’ can carve clay blobs into lion-shaped landforms called yardangs, a new study suggests. One such yardang may have inspired the Great Sphinx of Giza.
Let’s explore whether energy loss to heat could explain why a basketball doesn’t bounce back to its original height.
Airborne robots help researchers keep tabs on wildlife, agriculture and more.
Tracking muons raining down on Earth can reveal new details of pyramids, volcanoes and thunderstorms.
Giant kelp are at risk due to climate change and human activities. In New Zealand, a community effort is rebuilding these underwater algal forests.
In the lab, shining light on water made it evaporate faster. This never-before-seen effect, if real, might be happening naturally all around us.
An underground instrument known as ‘G’ uses laser beams to measure Earth’s rotation — a gauge of day length — with extreme precision.
Some can aid the climate by removing pollutants. Others would just avoid dirtying the environment in the first place.
Although many of the world's forests have gotten less fragmented since 2000, tropical forests have gotten more chopped up, putting animals at risk.
