Northern Arizona’s San Francisco Volcanic Field is a prominent geological landmark in the Southwest. Comprised of about 1,800 square miles, it is the location of more than 600 volcanic vents in the ...

Kris Wang is a fourth-year undergraduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, where he is studying geosciences with a focus on volcanology and igneous petrology.

We often talk about climate change, melting glaciers, or strange landforms. But we rarely think about something that’s always around us– rocks. They don’t make the news, but they’re everywhere. We ...

The rock cycle is a prime example of how Earth is truly dynamic. The three main rock types that compose the Earth’s lithosphere undergo continual transformation into one another due to geologic ...

染色体结构维持复合物（Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes complexes，SMC）——包括粘连蛋白（cohesin）和凝缩蛋白（condensin）在真核生物基因组动态折叠模式的调控中发挥核心作用。在 G1 期，cohesin 通过环挤压（loop extrusion）机制组织基因组结构，并通过这一机制将 ...

Soil is complex, posing challenges for measurement and management at scale. Mark Kimsey from the University of Idaho highlights the importance of monitoring soil properties in forest management. This ...

The Chang’e-6 mission marked the first successful retrieval of lunar farside samples, focusing on the SPA basin’s intrusive magmatism. HKU researchers have identified extensive plutonic activity, ...