Archivo de Etiquetas:: geociencias
Descubren por qué el polo norte magnético se mueve tan rápido hacia Siberia
Durante décadas, los científicos han tratado de averiguar las razones de este inexplicable desplazamiento. La respuesta está en una «guerra magnética» que se libra cerca del núcleo terrestre […]
That’s not lava, it’s mud
European scientists unravel a Martian mystery. […]
The new science of volcanoes harnesses AI, satellites and gas sensors to forecast eruptions
Forty years after the Mount St Helens eruption galvanized volcano researchers, they are using powerful new tools to spy on the world’s most dangerous mountains. […]
Can nuclear fallout make it rain?
Radioactive fallout is rarely a good thing. But new research suggests charged particles emitted from Cold War–era nuclear tests may have boosted rainfall thousands of kilometers away from the testing sites, by triggering electrical charges in the air that caused […]
Grounded aircraft could make weather forecasts less reliable
Thanks to travel restrictions and plummeting customer demand, the number of flights in the first week of April 2020 was down 61% compared with the same period in 2019. The pandemic has emptied the skies of aircraft, but it’s not […]
Soil pathogens rise as temperatures do
Study highlights growing threat to food security. […]
Las bacterias que aprendieron a «beberse» las rocas
El desierto de Atacama es tan seco que la vida debe recurrir a estrategias muy inusuales para conseguir agua. […]
Hayabusa 2 ofrece nuevos datos del asteroide donde recogió material
En febrero de 2019 la nave japonesa Hayabusa 2 tocó un instante el asteroide Ryugu para tomar una muestra y traerla a la Tierra. Además de captar imágenes en alta resolución, la maniobra permitió estudiar de cerca su capa rojiza […]
Scientists report lunar carbon emissions
And that raises questions about the Moon’s past. […]
When it rains, lava pours
Early 2018 saw unusually heavy rainfall in Hawaii. Modelling now suggests that groundwater pressure increased owing to rainfall: this might have triggered changes in the eruption of the island’s Kīlauea volcano. […]