It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere, based on nitrogen isotope ...

A new sponge-like material uses sunlight to harvest water from air, offering an efficient, low-cost solution for water ...

Water reshapes Earth through slow, powerful erosion, carving intricate landscapes like caves and pinnacles in soluble rocks ...

Water might seem soft and harmless, but under the right conditions, it becomes one of the most powerful natural forces on ...

Lava floods, ice age floods and the ancestral Columbia River carved the steep canyons and coulees we see in Eastern Washington today. And within just the past 95 years, humans used these natural ...

Water changes everything about the way a planet works.” With those words, Graham Pearson, a foremost expert on deep Earth ...

Warm water takes up more space than cool. As the oceans have heated up, they’ve expanded; as they get bigger, sea levels creep up. Between 1971 and 2010, this heat-driven sea-level rise added ...

A serendipitous observation in a Chemical Engineering lab at Penn Engineering has led to a surprising discovery: a new class ...

South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, ...

His wedge could have easily hit that rock on the downswing and caused a whiff ... there was a strong chance it wouldn't even clear the water. John Maginnes, the on-course reporter walking with ...