Wit & Wisdom

Into the Unknown: Research Cruises and the Geologist’s Drill

Kuan-Yu Lin and edited by Rajani Shrestha September 6, 2023

View aboard the JOIDES Resolution. Photo courtesy of Kuan-Yu Lin.

With love for geoscience comes a zest for exploring the natural world. What we want to explore might not always be close to us. But science finds a way, even if it means sailing to the middle of the ocean. This week, we are going to dive into the nuts and bolts of how research cruises work in this blog post by Kuan-Yu Lin from the University of Delaware. Kuan-Yu recently sailed as an igneous petro ...[Read More]

A summer science YouTube playlist

Betti Hegyi August 2, 2023

Summer is not over yet, so today I prepared a list of science YouTube channels to check out during the lazy summer afternoons. Scientists and teachers love to share their research, experiments and insights with anyone who is willing to listen, so there are many fantastic science channels to watch. These people work hard to make science accessible for everyone, so when we’re all done watching bad s ...[Read More]

More than a homework: “I am a rock”

Elvira Mulyukova, Cedric Thieulot and edited by Ágnes Király May 24, 2023

Illustration by Á. Király

Outreach is becoming a more and more prominent part of the work of researchers. With public funding many of us are expected to show in a creative way what we do with our funding, but it is not easy to step out from the << I will post on social media>> comfort zone. This week Elvira Mulyukova, in collaboration with Cedric Thieulot, is showing us how to create something extraordinary fro ...[Read More]

Ambient seismic wavefield: how noise can be a signal

Rajani Shrestha February 23, 2023

Trace of a seismogram recording background noise

Every now and then, the surface of our planet shakes violently during earthquakes like the recent magnitudes 7.8 and 7.5 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake Sequence in Türkiye. These vibrations are recorded by instruments called seismometers and are then processed and analyzed by seismologists to study the earthquake processes themselves as well as other deep Earth structures. Interestingly, seismometers al ...[Read More]