How does the Earth generate its magnetic field? While the basic mechanisms seem to be understood, many details remain unresolved. A team of researchers from the Center for Advanced Systems ...

New simulations show that the world's strongest ocean current didn't start flowing overnight – several major factors needed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers simulated temperature trends and tectonic plate movement to monitor their impact on mammals. Supercomputer simulation ...

Maybe the world we live in our whole lives inside isn’t the real one, maybe it’s more like a big video game, or the movie ...

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 26-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling in recognition of their project "Computing the Full Earth System at 1 ...

Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by NASA's DART spacecraft 11 seconds before the impact that shifted its path through space, in the first test of asteroid deflection. (Johns Hopkins University ...

A colossal ocean current encircling Antarctica—stronger than all the world’s rivers combined—played a far more complex role in shaping Earth’s climate than scientists once thought. New research shows ...

Described as a "knowledge collider," and now with a pledge of one billion euros from the European Union, the Living Earth Simulator is a new big data and supercomputing project that will attempt to ...

Gravity used to be the most down-to-earth of ideas, the thing that kept apples falling and planets in line. Now a growing group of physicists is treating it as a possible glitch report from the fabric ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When a new supercontinent forms, it could be enough to send temperatures rising even more steeply than ...

Imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the Earth in about 14 years — a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city but devastate a whole region.