The Greenland Ice Sheet covers 1.7 million square kilometers (660,200 square miles) in the Arctic. If it melts entirely, global sea level would rise about 7 meters (23 feet), but scientists aren't sure how quickly the ice ...
Earth Sciences
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Proxy data—indirect records of the Earth's climate found in unlikely places like coral, pollen, trees and sediments—show interesting oscillations approximately every 100,000 years starting about one million years ago. ...
Planetary Sciences
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Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have created a new method for deriving approximate linear equations to complicated nonlinear problems. Using simulation results, they show that the model derived using their proposed ...
Mathematics
Feb 27, 2023
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A new report written by an international team of researchers, including scientists from Oregon State University (OSU), warns of many risky climate feedback loops and the need for action in both research and policy. Published ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 17, 2023
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists set out to address one of the biggest uncertainties about how carbon-rich permafrost will respond to gradual sinking of the land surface as temperatures rise. Using a high-performance ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 15, 2023
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In the study of human impact on the environment, there are few negative or stabilizing feedbacks on climate change.
Earth Sciences
Feb 2, 2023
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People in China have more favorable opinions of Europeans than Americans, but the feeling is not mutual, according to a new study from researchers at Rice University, the National University of Singapore and the University ...
Social Sciences
Jan 30, 2023
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When bacteria interact, they give off cellular signals that can trigger a response in their neighbors, causing them to behave in different ways or produce different substances. For example, they can communicate to coordinate ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 26, 2023
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Cells with a functioning molecular clock are better able to adapt to changes in glucose supply and can recover faster from long-term starvation, according to a study published today in eLife.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 10, 2023
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Cities need to plant more trees. But not just any trees.
Ecology
Dec 27, 2022
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