4+ hour, 43+ min ago  (35+ words) Collecting fracture fluids (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! Prof. Magdalena Osburn collects fracture fluids, composed of water and dissolved gases. Sanford Underground Research Facility More on this News Release Organized microbial "workforces" keep Earth"s underground biosphere running...

2+ hour, 42+ min ago  (158+ words) image: The early Cambrian bryozoan Protomelission gatehouseifrom the Xiann'dong Formation, South China. Image shows a colony with individual capsules, called zooids, that held separate individuals of the colony. view more Fossil evidence from approximately 520-million-year-old rocks in China finally places…...

4+ hour, 28+ min ago  (721+ words) image: Prof. Magdalena Osburn removes a sample during a site visit. view more By studying life deep inside a former gold mine, a Northwestern University-led team of scientists uncovered evidence that Earth's hidden biosphere operates less like a random collection…...

21+ hour, 39+ min ago  (649+ words) image: A slice of NWA 12774. The green circle is an olivine crystal, a magnesium-rich mineral. view more Four-and-a-half billion years ago, a massive world, possibly as big as the moon or even Mars, orbited our sun before crashing into another…...

1+ day, 45+ min ago  (76+ words) Path to public (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! This graphic details the workflow for translating NWS text products via the LILT application programming interface and posting them to the public NWS experimental website at weather. gov/translate. Graphic courtesy Joseph Trujillo-Falc'n The…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (106+ words) (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! Increased soil salinization slows biochar aging and limits microbial colonization Ruoyu Wang, Hongqiang Li, Naqi Cui, Chong Tang, Xiangping Wang, Wenping Xie & Rongjiang Yao This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4. 0 International License, which permits…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (875+ words) Rapid warming in Arctic and boreal regions may transform forests and tundra from carbon sinks into carbon sources. Two University of Utah-led studies improve biomass mapping to assess whether northern ecosystems will mitigate or accelerate climate change image: Mountains of…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (20+ words) Tainted landscape (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! Rapidly changing Alaskan landscape. More on this News Release Why the Arctic's rivers are rusting...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (198+ words) SAN ANTONIO " June 1, 2026 " Southwest Research Institute (Sw RI) has upgraded its Ocean Simulation Laboratories with a new 30-inch diameter pressure vessel. This new vessel allows Sw RI to test larger equipment at conditions that simulate full-ocean depth and features a…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (207+ words) image: Sperm transfer in Copula sivickisi. The male (above) produces and transfers a spermatophore while grasping the female by the tentacles; the female (below) receives the spermatophore. view more Credit: "Marques et al 2015. This international collaboration brings together researchers from…...