This story appears in the spring 2025 issue of UC San Diego Magazine as “Taking Flight.” ...

The data was captured by NASA’s MAVEN, which entered a Mars-bound orbit back in 2014. Since then, the spacecraft has captured ...

The clouds in Antarctica might be fueled by penguin poop. Penguin poop - sorry, penguin guano - is creating clouds in ...

Only about one percent of all that trapped heat has stayed in the atmosphere, but it’s had a huge effect, warming up the air by Earth’s surface by about 1°F (0.6°C) on average over the past ...

Using the joint U.S.-Taiwanese COSMIC-2 satellite network, as well as 37 ground-based radars called ionosodes, the team ...

Sporadic E layers lit up during a solar storm, moving from poles to equator—surprising researchers and revealing potential ...

The ice held part of the answer to a question that had vexed scientists for years: How much of the methane in the atmosphere ... One recent study found that the widely used “leakage rate ...

In a news release by the Durham County Sheriff's Office, a school resource officer (SRO ... Durham school leaders said the gun was found and confiscated immediately. Durham County Sheriff's ...

And, according to new research, those efforts may be working. Researchers found that atmospheric mercury levels have decreased by almost 70% in the last 20 years, mainly because human-caused ...

And, according to research published in ACS ES&T Air, those efforts may be working. Researchers found that atmospheric mercury levels have decreased by almost 70% in the last 20 years, mainly because ...

Abstract: Collection and storage of propellant on-orbit has the potential to dramatically reduce launch mass for future exploration missions. A proposed method for this collection utilizes an orbiting ...

As low-resource communities ... from the samples and used PIC-seq to analyze the different strains. "We found a higher level of strain-sharing between humans and stored drinking water than ...