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Satellite captures first high-resolution images of a giant tsunami in the Pacific Ocean
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (933+ words) When a magnitude 8. 8 earthquake ripped through the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone on July 29, 2025, it launched a Pacific-wide tsunami " and a rare natural experiment. NASA and the French space agency's SWOT satellite happened to pass overhead. The satellite captured the first high-resolution,…...
Coastal groundwater is disappearing in many regions worldwide
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (814+ words) Groundwater stored near the world's coastlines supports drinking water supplies for huge numbers of people. A new study shows that this resource is coming under increasing pressure. Many coastal areas are seeing major shifts in groundwater levels that could allow…...
Largest-known underground colony contains millions of ground-nesting bees
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (873+ words) A quiet cemetery might seem like an unlikely place for a scientific discovery. Yet, beneath the grass, millions of tiny ground-nesting bees are busy shaping their underground world. This story reveals how one peaceful place turned into a buzzing hotspot…...
Earth's missing lead mystery may finally be solved
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (866+ words) Lead is at the center of one of Earth's strangest mysteries. A big chunk of it is gone. Not just misplaced, but missing in a way that has puzzled scientists for decades. Lead is more than just a heavy metal....
Scientists make a very unexpected discovery inside young dinosaurs' stomachs
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (817+ words) Researchers found that a baby dinosaur known as Psittacosaurus was swallowing stones before it was even a year old. The discovery suggests that this plant-eater adopted an adult-style feeding strategy almost from the very beginning. The research recasts these hatchlings…...
Giant echidna fossil found in Australia fills a major gap in animal history
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (662+ words) A hidden cave in Australia has quietly kept a secret for over a hundred years. Deep inside, scientists have now found proof that a giant echidna once lived there. This exciting discovery helps us understand how animals lived long ago....
Remote volcano wakes up after 700, 000 years of dormant silence
3+ day, 12+ min ago (1089+ words) A volcano in southeastern Iran has nudged upward by about 3. 5 inches (9 centimeters) in 10 months. This might sound like a small rise but it has big significance. A new study used satellite data to spot the change and argues that pressure…...
Gas behavior in magma chambers helps predict volcanic eruptions
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (716+ words) A new study has found that gas dissolving back into magma can pressurize large volcanic systems faster than gas escaping from them. That reversal accelerates the path toward eruption, tightening the window between deep recharge and surface failure. In a…...
When giant animals vanished, early humans reinvented their tools - and possibly their brains
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (910+ words) For a long time, survival came down to one big win. Imagine a group of early humans bringing down a massive elephant. That single hunt could feed everyone for weeks, maybe even months. Life felt steady in a strange way,…...
Ancient supervolcano beneath Japan is refilling with magma
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1102+ words) Some volcanoes don't just erupt. They blow their tops so completely that the ground collapses into a broad crater called a caldera." These are the supervolcano systems often mentioned alongside Yellowstone and Toba. They are rare, but when they erupt,…...