Engineers from Sierra Space, a private company, have developed a machine designed to extract oxygen from lunar soil, also ...

Cadmium is a naturally occurring metal found in the Earths crust, usually in combination with other elements such as oxygen, ...

Recent sampling shows that a high-alpine tributary of the Roaring Fork River, in addition to having high concentrations of ...

Some researchers consider Zealandia the eighth continent on Earth. Recent studies reveal that it is over a billion years old.

Aluminum stress is an important factor limiting plant growth in acidic soil, and has significant effects on the growth, development and physiological metabolism of Mentha canadensis. However, the ...

When searching for alien life, it’s not unusual to use Earth as a test bed for theories and even practice runs. Perhaps one ...

In addition to the potential for mining valuable rare earth metals, scientists are eager to learn more about their impacts to human health and aquatic environments. There are no state or federal water ...

A team of scientists exploring an underwater volcano have discovered that life below the seafloor is more thriving than we ...

Using nearly four decades of seismic data from stations encompassing the northern, central, and southern Sierra Nevada along ...

Certain metallic rocks seem to be making oxygen in the dark, without light or sunshine, at the bottom of the ocean.

Coral reef research has focused on the twin evils birthed by record-high greenhouse gas emissions: warming oceans and ...