On a clear November day in east-central Nebraska’s Platte County, Hemmer dowses a small tract of farmland in search of a replacement spot for a collapsed irrigation well that pumped 550 gallons per ...

The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ...

In mountain regions like the Rockies, headwater streams make up more than 70% of the river network and support the downstream ...

When water penetrates rock crevices in permafrost, it transports heat deep underground, where it causes the frozen rock to ...

The math behind even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major ...

Today, there are over 30,000 dams in the world. Most of them are created according to standard projects and are designed to ...

Across the city of Decatur, there are many people using STEM to keep the community running successfully. One of these is city ...

Experiments at high temperatures and pressures reveal chemistry that can generate water on the surface of exoplanets ...

Fifty years after the Great Lakes freighter sank, scientists can explain the weather that still haunts Lake Superior.

Groundwater extraction for irrigation is leading to rapid subsidence, though effective state management could help slow the process. In Arizona’s Willcox Basin, located just over an hour east of ...

What: New research suggests Uranus’s moon Ariel once hosted, or may still contain, a deep subsurface ocean beneath its icy crust. Guests: Planetary scientist Dr. Ca ...