Scientists use data visualization to quantify, interpret, evaluate, and communicate information. Recent research into the ways that people see and interpret colors is improving tools to convey visual ...

The summer monsoon delivers rain to the rolling hills near Jawhar, a town near the western coast of India. Last January, scientists gathered to discuss the many interacting factors that have driven ...

Burns Bog, a roughly 35-square-kilometer peatland, is situated on the Fraser River delta south of Vancouver, B.C. Disturbances to and drainage of the peatlands in the 20th century allowed larger, ...

Plate tectonics just turned 50. The theory of how our planet’s lithosphere—its outer layer—changes shape and evolves is probably one of the most important scientific advancements of all time. Before ...

A crowd beats the heat with spray from a fire hydrant in Seattle. A new method for measuring urban heat exposure shows that more densely populated neighborhoods may face higher heat and longer hot ...

Heavy rain will likely be a more common occurrence on a warming planet. Credit: Santosh Kumar, CC BY 2.0 The simplest thermodynamic equations make it clear that warmer air can hold more moisture than ...

If water is the key to life, then oxygen is the key to animal life. All animals breathe oxygen. Despite decades of research, however, scientists still don’t know when Earth’s atmosphere held enough ...

In 1872, the British Challenger expedition sailed around the globe on a voyage to study and sample the world’s oceans. The expedition is thought to be the first scientific oceanographic cruise. Of the ...

Presentations that have captions are better understood, whether they are in-person or remote. Captions make verbal material more accessible to a wider variety of people. A study of BBC television ...

Clouds hover over radar equipment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Southern Great Plains Central Facility near Lamont, Okla. Credit: Nicki Hickmon, Argonne National ...

Phoenix’s Piestewa Peak was renamed in 2008 to honor Lori Piestewa, the first Native American woman to die serving in the U.S. military. Previously, the mountain’s name contained an offensive slur for ...

View of Hüfifirn, a medium-sized glacier in Central Switzerland with the peak of Schärhorn (3,296 meters above sea level) in the background (photo taken in August 2021). Mountains store much of the ...