Explained: Measuring earthquakes
How do scientists measure jolts such as the recent disaster in Japan? Hint: They don’t use the Richter scale.
How do scientists measure jolts such as the recent disaster in Japan? Hint: They don’t use the Richter scale.
From deep space to deep sea, two-day symposium examined MIT’s impacts and innovations.
In MIT visit, Lisa Jackson discusses how technology can affect government regulations.
Led team that discovered the rings of Uranus in 1977.
New tool allows unprecedented accuracy in dating of some seafloor rocks, with potential to help climate analysis.
NASA’s Kepler orbiting telescope has found hundreds of new possible planets, including 54 in the so-called 'habitable zone.'
NASA team suggests that massive projectiles added mass to Earth, Mars and the Moon during final phase of planet formation
Study suggests that trace amounts of water created oceans on Earth and other terrestrial planets, including those outside the solar system.
Graduate students take practicum at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Geologists aim to improve the accuracy of their process for dating ancient rocks.
Hemispheres will respond to climate change differently, with weaker summer storms in the North, study suggests.
President Hockfield joins Gov. Patrick and others at groundbreaking ceremony.
Lessons learned from the BP oil spill could help both companies and regulators to be more ready for the next emergency.
New map of lunar craters sheds light on early solar-system activity and points to oldest parts of the moon’s surface.
Research suggests ocean color is linked to formation, movement of tropical cyclones