Deformation

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can't withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

A research team led by Professor Sun Qing-Feng in collaboration with Professor He Lin's research group from Beijing Normal University has achieved orbital hybridization in graphene-based artificial atoms for the first time.

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation following the impact that wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs.

A section of the upper mantle and crust under the Sierra Nevada mountains is peeling away, in a process that may mimic how the continents were formed.

Scientists revealed surprising insights from studying mayonnaise, a "soft solid," for its potential to stabilize nuclear fusion reactions.

We take you down below Iceland's erupting surface with the researchers who are trying to understand what's going to happen next.

Clathrate hydrates are complex water structures that contain foreign guest molecules inside a host water-molecule shell. A predicted clathrate hydrate phase structure has been stably synthesized in the lab and may play an important role in future material science research.

Researchers found the 2023 Morocco earthquake was triggered by movement miles below Earth's surface.

Atomic nuclei come in different shapes, varying from football-like ("prolate") to pancake-like ("oblate"). Prolate and oblate shapes have different moments of inertia. This is a body's resistance to having its speed of rotation altered by an external force. Atomic nuclei having different shapes with different moments of inertia implies that it takes different amounts of energy to spin different nuclei.

A glacier's flow depends on how microscopic defects move through the ice, according to new research that also yielded a new model for predicting how glaciers will flow, ultimately contributing to sea-level rise.

Pelting metals under high temperatures has revealed that some get even stronger when heated, which could help improve 3D printing and certain industrial processes

UD engineers are the lead inventors on a new patent for making piezoelectric devices, such as sensors and actuators, using Nodax, a biodegradable, bio-based polymer.

Do we have enough fuel to get to our destination? This is probably one of the first questions that comes to mind whenever your family gets ready to embark on a road trip. If the trip is long, you will need to visit gas stations along your route to refuel during your travel.

Using observations collected over the past few years on the Reykjanes Peninsula, the Icelandic Meteorological Office has been able to offer forecasts on the likelihood of new eruptions near Grindavík.

Each dramatic episode over the past few years has led to fresh geologic revelations, and researchers think another bout is on the way

The Atlantic Ocean won't last forever. When it starts to close, it will be subduction zones that consume oceanic crust. New research suggest one is propagating into the Atlantic today.

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Fjords, many of them sculpted over many ice ages, can form all over Earth. So why does Norway have so many?

Previous eruptions have been tourist attractions. Not this one.

Iceland's volcanic activity is generally tame compared with explosive eruptions along the Pacific's Ring of Fire. This time, it's shaking up a town.