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ORNL’s Marie Kurz examines the many factors affecting the health of streams and watersheds. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Marie Kurz

The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is a tropical rainfall pattern that excites waves of air in the atmosphere. The MJO can have a significant effect

With the Delta coronavirus variant on the march and the common cold making headway due to some going maskless, there is no better time than today to start taking care of your immune system. The way to do that is to eat immune-boosting foods. Yes, instead of asking your immune cells to take care of you, you can help strengthen your immune system's ability to respond–through healthy lifestyle choices and diet–by arming them with nutrients such as vitamins and minerals, antioxidants and phytochemicals that give your immune "killer" cells the ammo they need to complete their mission: To ke...

(Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Esther Parish is one of eight scientists from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory talking to students in nine schools across East Tennessee as part of National Environmental Education Week, or EE Week. On April 13, she spoke to Cathy Kimball’s fifth grade class at Lenoir City Middle School. The discussion covered renewable energy resources, science career paths and how climate change may affect East Tennessee. “I think it is important to reach out to young people about environmental science because the choices that our society makes...

Loading video... VIDEO: In 2018, researchers from the Jackson School of Geosciences and other institutions travelled to Northern California to conduct a first-of-its-kind field study to sample the interiors of a sequence of... view more  Credit: Michelle Pedrazas/UT Jackson School of Geosciences A first-of-its-kind study led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that rock weathering and water storage appear to follow a similar pattern across undulating landscapes where hills rise and fall for miles. The findings are important because they suggest that these patterns could impr...