In July 2024, a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Calama, Chile, damaging buildings and causing power outages. A sequence of events, discovered by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, helped supercharge its strength. In a recent study in Nature Communications the researchers describe the chain of events that was responsible for increasing the earthquake’s intensity.

Wildfire-born storms have become a growing part of fire seasons across the West, with lasting impacts on air quality, weather, and climate. Until now, scientists have struggled to replicate them in Earth system models, hindering our ability to predict their occurrence and understand their impacts on the global climate. Now, a new study provides a breakthrough by developing a novel wildfire-Earth system modeling framework.  

A new study from Tel Aviv University has predicted, for the first time, the groundbreaking results that can be obtained from detecting radio waves coming to us from the early Universe. The findings show that during the cosmic dark ages, dark matter formed dense clumps throughout the Universe, which pulled in hydrogen gas and caused it to emit intense radio waves. This leads to a novel method to use the measured radio signals to help resolve the mystery of dark matter.

In a paper published in SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, a team of researchers conducted a comprehensive analysis of carbon and silicon burial in a river-dominated estuary. This study provides a robust method for examining changes in carbon preservation associated with silicon under the increasing anthropogenic nutrient inputs in coastal water.