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Plants & Animals Mar 25, 2024

The key to Florida beaches' hurricane recovery: The humble sea oat

From eye level, the wisps of green emerging from sand dunes up and down Pinellas County's barrier islands look sparse, stubby, almost tentative as they peek at the sun. Below the surface, though, they are spreading out, trapping ...

Planetary Sciences Mar 21, 2024

Astronomers confirm a new 'Trojan' asteroid that shares an orbit with Mars

Using observations made with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) a study led from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) has confirmed that the asteroid 2023 FW14, discovered ...

Astronomy Mar 21, 2024

How a balloon-borne experiment can do the job of the Hubble space telescope

An astronomical telescope designed to complement the aging Hubble Space Telescope lifted off from New Zealand's south island on April 16 2023. But as a sphere the size of a football stadium rose silently and slowly over the ...

General Physics Mar 19, 2024

Pushing the limit of the periodic table with superheavy elements

Scientists from Massey University in New Zealand, the University of Mainz in Germany, Sorbonne University in France, and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) discuss the limit of the periodic table and revising the ...

Ecology Mar 13, 2024

How climate change drives the spread of invasive plants

As the climate warms, the number of alien species on every continent is expected to increase 36% by 2050. Some alien species—that is, plants or animals that live outside their natural range—are invasive and can harm ecosystems ...

Economics & Business Mar 11, 2024

Europe is not prepared for rapidly growing climate risks, researchers say

Europe is the fastest-warming continent in the world and governments are too slow in taking action to reduce these climate risks. According to co-authors Robbert Biesbroek and Simona Pedde of Wageningen University & Research, ...

Plants & Animals Mar 11, 2024

Restored coral reefs can grow as fast as healthy reefs after just four years, researchers find

The coral reefs of south Sulawesi are some of the most diverse, colorful and vibrant in the world. At least, they used to be, until they were decimated by dynamite fishing in the 1990s.

Ecology Mar 8, 2024

Good news for coral reef restoration efforts: Study finds 'full recovery' of reef growth within four years

While the majority of the world's reefs are now under threat or even damaged potentially beyond repair, a new study reported in the journal Current Biology on March 8 offers some encouraging news: efforts to restore coral ...

Earth Sciences Feb 28, 2024

An 80-mph speed record for glacier fracture helps reveal the physics of ice sheet collapse

There's enough water frozen in Greenland and Antarctic glaciers that if they melted, global seas would rise by many feet. What will happen to these glaciers over the coming decades is the biggest unknown in the future of ...

Plants & Animals Feb 28, 2024

Elephant seals, once nearly extinct, are finding new places to call home

Wildlife is vanishing around the world, plummeting at rates unprecedented in human history. Then there are elephant seals.

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