This story is a part of Understanding Southern Colorado's Groundwater, an occasional series from KRCC about groundwater ...

HydroSpread, a breakthrough fabrication method, lets scientists build ultrathin soft robots directly on water. These tiny, ...

Enceladus gives researchers a unique window into its subsurface world. The Cassini mission already taught us that plumes of ...

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human ...

How do plants breathe? When do they open and close the tiny pores on their leaves, and what does this mean for their water ...

Water scarcity is a huge global issue. More than 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water—a situation set to ...

Over the past 40 years, atmospheric rivers carrying moisture from the tropics have migrated between 6 and 10 degrees closer ...

Reanalyzing old data with our modern understanding seems to be in vogue lately. However, the implications of that reanalysis ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 ...

In relatively dry southern Colorado, they also provide a secondary round of water storage. The first round is Colorado’s snowpack, which, as it melts, feeds groundwater that fens’ spongy peat captures ...

New research suggests that planets outside our solar system contain far less surface water than scientists once believed.

How high will the ocean rise under climate change? By 2050, scientists have a pretty good idea. But why does it matter where ...