Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news that impacts science and scientists today. A yearly analysis of climate change’s progress and effects ...

Years ago, scientists noted something odd: Earth’s Northern and Southern Hemispheres reflect nearly the same amount of sunlight back into space. The reason why this symmetry is odd is because the ...

Lead is a neurotoxin that can damage multiple body systems and lead to learning and developmental problems. The element has been phased out of use in paint, gasoline, and other industrial applications ...

New research suggests that as Earth traveled through space over billions of years, its movements in and out of the spiral arms of the Milky Way (seen here from the top of Cerro Armazones, Chile) may ...

A new study mapped the ages of forests around the world. Forests in the Congo Basin, as seen in this image, were found to be younger at the end of the study than they were at the beginning. Credit: ...

The federal government shut down just after midnight on 1 October. Credit: Beth Bagley/AGU Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news regarding law ...

Katherine Rothwell of ETH Zurich extracts pore water to monitor geochemical conditions in sediments during experiments in the Wadden Sea near Hamburg, Germany, in August 2022. Nearby, sediment samples ...

Enterprise Rupes, a large fault that cuts across the Rembrandt Basin crater (the large crater on the right) on the surface of Mercury. This fault—and many others like it—may have resulted from the ...

Human activity is shifting the type of nitrogen flowing out of Arctic rivers and into the Arctic Ocean, a new publication shows. The amount of organic nitrogen, which is derived from living things, is ...

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a natural climate phenomenon driven by interactions between the ocean and atmosphere in the tropical Pacific. In recent decades, major advances in observing ...

Healthy soils are vital for sustaining life on Earth. They are essential for ecosystems, agricultural production, and clean water, and even help to regulate climate. A new article in Reviews of ...