Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory researchers will use the grant to enhance a sample identification system that makes scientific results more reproducible.

A group of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory ocean scientists, led by Sonya Dyhrman, are part of a research expedition off Hawaii that's investigating how the Mount Kilauea eruption is influencing ocean health.

Scientists have long determined what extinct animals ate by analyzing carbon isotopes locked inside their fossil teeth. But a new study shows that in many cases, they may be plugging the wrong numbers into their equations.

Elena Aprile, a physics professor at Columbia who is leading the world’s most sensitive search yet for dark matter, will receive the American Astronomical Society’s 2019 Lancelot M. Berkeley − New York Community Trust Prize Berkeley Prize.

A new study that reconstructs the deep history of our planet’s relationship to the moon and other planetary bodies shows that 1.4 billion years ago, a day on Earth lasted about 18.7 hours.