Local Winds Play Key Role in Some Megafires
Although drought and overgrown forests are often blamed for major fires in the western United States, new research using unique NASA before-and-after data from a … Read more
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Building Better Soybeans for a Hot, Dry, Hungry World
A new study shows that soybean plants can be redesigned to increase crop yields while requiring less water and helping to offset greenhouse gas warming. … Read more
New Study Outlines ‘Water World’ Theory of Life’s Origins
Life took root more than four billion years ago on our nascent Earth, a wetter and harsher place than now, bathed in sizzling ultraviolet rays. … Read more
Air Pollution Over Asia Makes Pacific Storms More Intense
In the first study of its kind, scientists have compared air pollution rates from 1850 to 2000 and found that anthropogenic (man-made) particles from Asia … Read more
Images From NASA Mars Rover Include Mysterious Bright Spots
Images taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on April 2 and April 3 include bright spots, which might be due to the sun glinting off … Read more
NASA’s OCO-2 Brings Sharp New Focus on Global Carbon
Simply by breathing, humans have played a small part in the planet-wide balancing act called the carbon cycle throughout our existence. However, in the last … Read more
NASA Model Provides a 3-D Look at L.A.-area Quake
On March 28, residents of Greater Los Angeles experienced the largest earthquake to strike the region since 2008. The magnitude 5.1 quake was centered near … Read more
The Search for Seeds of Black Holes
How do you grow a supermassive black hole that is a million to a billion times the mass of our sun? Astronomers do not know … Read more
Space Sunflower May Help Snap Pictures of Planets
A spacecraft that looks like a giant sunflower might one day be used to acquire images of Earth-like rocky planets around nearby stars. The prototype … Read more
Antarctic telescope may have provided the first direct evidence of origins of the universe
Uniquely cold and dry conditions of the atmosphere over Antarctica’s polar plateau made the observations possible Researchers with the National Science Foundation-funded BICEP2 Collaboration today … Read more
Simulating how the Earth kick-started metabolism
Researchers have developed a new approach to simulating the energetic processes that may have led to the emergence of cell metabolism on Earth – a … Read more
