Stick-slip events in the earth cause damage like this, but limited data from these relatively rare earthquakes makes them difficult to model with machine learning. Transfer learning may provide a path to understanding when such deep faults slip. Credit: Dreamstime

Using sparse data to predict lab earthquakes

The asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars is the main source of extraterrestrial material that lands on Earth. (Illustration: ESA/ATG Medialab)

Size doesn’t matter: Rock composition determines how deadly a meteorite impact...

Life reconstruction of a close-to-hatching oviraptorosaur dinosaur embryo, based on the new specimen “Baby Yingliang.” Credit: Lida Xing

Exquisitely preserved embryo found inside fossilized dinosaur egg

germinating fossil pine cone

A first in fossil research: Seeds sprouting from an amber-encased pine...

“In the shallows near shore, Tetrapodophis amplectus glides through a tangle of branches from the conifer Duartenia araripensis that have fallen into the water, sharing this habitat with a water bug in the family Belostomatidae and small fish (Dastilbe sp.).” Image credit: Julius Csotonyi

Paleontologists debunk fossil thought to be missing link between lizards and...

Map showing the Great Basin drainage basin as defined hydrologically. (Image credit: Kmusser/Wikimedia Commons)

Sierra Nevada range should celebrate two birthdays

A ruptured fault in Searles Valley, California, after the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes. A study of earthquakes led by The University of Texas at Austin found that seismic shockwaves are shaped by jagged faults and the debris wedged between them. Credit: Ben Brooks/USGS

Seismic shockwave pattern may be redirecting earthquake damage

A lab-grown crystal of a synthetic form of the rare earth mineral, monazite, shows extensive damage to one face after exposure to bio-leaching compound generated by Gluconobacter oxydans. Credit: Credit: Brian Balta/Provided

Bacteria may be key to sustainably extracting earth elements for tech

Scientist reveals cause of lost magnetism at meteorite site

Copper-rich minerals indicating widespread volcanic activity at the end-Permian mass extinction in different regions in southern China (A: Taoshujing locality; B: Lubei locality; C: Guanbachong; D: Taoshujing locality; E: Longmendong locality). The minerals are all copper sulfides, mostly Malachite--the minerals' green patches. Photo credit: H. Zhang, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology.

‘Volcanic winter’ likely contributed to ecological catastrophe 250 million years ago

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