Waters acidic enough to corrode seashells are already raking shores in northern California, reveals a new study of the effects of carbon emissions on the oceans.
The formation of an Idaho canyon thousands of years ago, along with recent discoveries of ancient hot springs and geysers on Mars, has formed a portrait of a wetter, more violent red planet.
Light from distant quasars has revealed that almost half of the matter astronomers hadn't been able to account for is clustered around wispy ropes spanning the space between galaxies.
An x-ray flash that signals the start of a stellar explosion could help astronomers predict supernovae and could boost the search for exotic phantom particles and ripples in space-time.
As the death toll soared past 40,000, state media reported that radioactive materials from hospitals, factories, or research labs buried by debris have been recovered or cordoned off.
Hurricanes will occur less frequently but be slightly wetter and stronger, predicts the latest finding in the contentious debate over global warming and hurricanes.
A decade after its discovery, scientists are struggling to pin down the properties of the "dark side" of gravity and unravel a mystery that accounts for about 74 percent of the universe.
The tree-dwelling creatures were put on a specially built treadmill of ropes and pulleys as part of new research into how much energy the animals expend.
