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Off track: How storms will veer in a warmer world
The dry, semi-arid regions are expanding into higher latitudes, and temperate, rainy regions are migrating poleward. In a new paper, researchers provide new insight into this phenomenon by discovering that mid-latitude storms are steered further toward the poles in a … Continue reading
Scientists track the brain-skull transition from dinosaurs to birds
The dramatic, dinosaur-to-bird transition that occurred in reptiles millions of years ago was accompanied by profound changes in the skull roof of those animals — and holds important clues about the way the skull forms in response to changes in … Continue reading
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Ancient DNA used to track Mesa Verde exodus in 13th century
Ancient DNA used to track the mass exodus of Ancestral Pueblo people from Colorado’s Mesa Verde region in the late 13th century indicates many wound up in the Northern Rio Grande area north of Santa Fe, N.M., inhabited today by … Continue reading
A dinosaur track investigation
My “Fossil Grandpa” took me to visit this neat site when I was in Texas last summer (2013). We drove to a small rural community, where it seemed there wasn’t anything to find. However, my Grandpa pointed out me to … Continue reading
Using a method from Wall Street to track slow slipping of Earth’s crust
An indicator for stock prices can be used with GPS data to automatically detect slow-slip earthquakes from a single station’s observations, offering a new way to monitor seismic activity. Geology News — ScienceDaily
Last remnant of North American ice sheet on track to vanish
The last piece of the ice sheet that once blanketed much of North America is doomed to disappear in the next several centuries, says a new study. Geology News — ScienceDaily
Earth’s magnetic fields could track ocean heat
Track of Sanba overlaid on Sea Surface Temperature + Ocean Heat Content products As Earth warms, much of the extra heat is stored in the planet’s ocean — but monitoring the magnitude of that heat content is a difficult task. … Continue reading
Scientist strengthens tools to track animal, ecosystem responses to environmental changes
By charting the slopes and crags on animals’ teeth as if they were mountain ranges, scientists have created a powerful new way to learn about the diets of extinct animals from the fossil record. Understanding the diets of animals that … Continue reading
Scientists track Greenland’s ice melt with seismic waves
Greenland’s ice sheet Researchers from MIT, Princeton University, and elsewhere have developed a new technique to monitor the seasonal changes in Greenland’s ice sheet, using seismic vibrations generated by crashing ocean waves. The results, which will be published in the … Continue reading
Ancient super-eruptions in Yellowstone Hotspot track ‘significantly larger’ than expected
The volcanic ashfall region in the United Stateswhere ash reached a thickness of 1 cm A number of giant super-eruptions between 8 and 12 million years ago that could be larger than the colossal eruptions known to have taken place … Continue reading