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Earth Sciences Sep 10, 2026

How two satellites are studying hurricanes during El Niño

In November 2025, NASA and its European partners launched the Sentinel-6B satellite to improve hurricane forecasts, help protect infrastructure and benefit commercial industries, including shipping. The satellite is now flying ...

Political science Sep 9, 2026

Q&A: Satellite imagery reveals what casualty figures alone do not tell us

How do we form a picture of conflicts? A new study published in the journal Nature explores how different types of data can be combined to give a fuller understanding of armed conflicts. Lead author Valerie Sticher uses the ...

Earth Sciences Sep 9, 2026

Africa's rocks hold ancient stories. We need better ways to document and protect them

From the Vredefort Dome in South Africa (the world's oldest and largest known meteorite impact structure) to the volcanic lakes of the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, Africa's landscapes hold some of Earth's oldest stories. Morocco's ...

Ecology Sep 9, 2026

Europe's forests are still standing, but many are losing the ability to recover

A forest can look intact from the roadside and still have lost much of its capacity to bounce back. That gap between appearance and function is at the center of a new policy brief published by eLTER, the European research ...

Space Exploration Sep 9, 2026

What to know about Europe's push to compete in space

Key figures from Europe's space industry and other international players have converged on Paris to discuss how to advance the continent's ambitions in a global market dominated by the United States.

Environment Sep 9, 2026

Estuary water quality trends have $100M implications, researchers find

Estuaries across the United States are facing the same trends of warming waters, algal growth and declining oxygen concentrations that threaten water quality and fish populations, regardless of geographic location, according ...

Earth Sciences Sep 9, 2026

Canada's last epishelf lake is gone for good, study confirms

Canada's last epishelf lake drained into the Arctic Ocean following the 2020 breakup of the Milne Ice Shelf and will not recover, a new study confirms.

Space Exploration Sep 9, 2026

As African space race heats up, Senegal pursues homemade satellites

Senegalese engineers in hairnets and white gloves are carefully assembling a nanosatellite at a French lab—another step toward fostering their own space industry back home.

Environment Sep 8, 2026

A vicarious calibration model enables quantitative applications of Fengyun-3 satellite ocean color data

Ocean color remote sensing is a vital tool for monitoring global ocean carbon sinks and primary productivity. However, the on-orbit calibration accuracy of satellite sensors is insufficient, and weak marine signals account ...

Plants & Animals Sep 8, 2026

Tiny backpacks reveal the secret, sometimes circuitous migrations of small songbirds

Squinting through my binoculars, I scanned the dense branches of a black spruce, trying my best to catch a glimpse of the thin legs of a small black, white and yellow songbird. I was on the hunt for a yellow-rumped warbler—a ...

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