The overlapping effects of sea level rise, permafrost thaw subsidence, and erosion may lead to land loss in Arctic coastal regions that dwarfs the loss of land from any single one of these climate hazards, scientists say.

In a provocative new study, scientists challenge a fundamental tenet in neuroscience about the shape of axons -- the long, thin filaments radiating from nerve cells that transmit electrical signals from cell to cell  – and propose a new model for understanding how information is transmitted in the brain. The study, led by Shigeki Watanabe of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, was partly conducted in the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Neurobiology course and appears this week in Nature Neuroscience.

What was the cause of the great Tōhoku earthquake of 2011, and how can we better understand geological processes in order to protect coastal infrastructure in the long term – for example, from a tsunami like the one 13 years ago? These questions are currently the focus of a scientific expedition as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), in which researchers from the MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen are participating. 

Two massive asteroids hit Earth around 35.65 million years ago, but did not lead to any lasting changes in the Earth’s climate, according to a new study by UCL (University College London) researchers.

A new £2.5 million project led by the University of Southampton and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is set to transform our understanding of how the ocean ‘breathes', storing heat and greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.