[ad_1] It illuminates our sky day after day, so that the sun seems familiar to us. But there are many things we do not know yet. That's why NASA launched its Parker …
Read More »Fall of the wild: Earth’s wilderness areas rapidly vanishing
[ad_1] The world’s last remaining wilderness areas are rapidly disappearing, a report warns. “A century ago, only 15 percent of the Earth’s surface was used by humans to grow crops and raise livestock,” lead author James …
Read More »Florida Fish and Wildlife Leaders Update on Red Tide
[ad_1] TO CLOSE Cleanup efforts continue from Satellite Beach in Melbourne Beach on Thursday, as the red tide leaves countless thousands of dead fish on the beaches. Tim Shortt, Florida today Buy …
Read More »Neanderthal teeth reveal lead exposure and difficult winters
[ad_1] A new study of oxygen isotope ratios and heavy metals in the tooth enamel of Neanderthals who lived and died 250,000 years ago in the south of France. The two Neanderthals …
Read More »The Kepler Space Telescope, NASA's planet fighter, is complete. What will happen to him?
[ad_1] For NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, the world will end in ice rather than in fire. Kepler, which is responsible for 70% of the approximately 3,800 exoplanet discoveries confirmed to date, turned …
Read More »The oceans absorbed 60% more heat than we thought
[ad_1] The researchers at Princeton and Scripps report that the world's oceans absorbed more than 13 zettajoules – which is a joule, the standard unit of energy, followed by 21 zeros – …
Read More »Why a Mission to a Visiting Interstellar Object Could Be Our Best Bet for Finding Aliens
[ad_1] Dream ExperimentThis Gizmodo series asks scientists to imagine their perfect experiment, unconstrained by resources, time, or the current limits of technology. Life may exist elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy, though …
Read More »The Milky Way Has a Gigantic Skeleton in Its Closet
[ad_1] An artist's depiction of the Gaia spacecraft mapping stars in the Milky Way. Credit: ESA / ATG MediaLab Scientists have identified the topic of a galaxy that fell into the Milky …
Read More »Cutting aerosol pollution may lessen extreme weather even with warming
[ad_1] More reasons to cut aerosol pollutiondbimages / Alamy Stock Photo By Michael Le Page Here’s yet another good reason to reduce aerosol pollution from fossil fuels: it could help limit the …
Read More »Controlling future summer weather conditions still within our reach
[ad_1] Jet stream on July 12, 2018, showing great ripples. Credit: Ventusky.com The continued burning of fossil fuels is likely to fuel even more extreme summers than 2018 due to its impact …
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