Playing a huge role in moderating the climate, oceans are fundamental to the functioning of our planet. Understanding more about how seawater temperatures are rising and how oceans are absorbing excess atmospheric carbon ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2024
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Marine biodiversity is in crisis around the globe. Climate change, overfishing, habitat destruction and other extractive industries are causing species losses at an alarming rate. Scientists, managers, and governments are ...
Ecology
Feb 21, 2024
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Marine microplastics (1 μm–5 mm diameter) are an ever-pressing concern, given their longevity in the environment (>100 years) and the effects they have on the organisms inhabiting them, particularly as ocean currents carry ...
Our physical, 3D world consists of just two types of particles: bosons, which include light and the famous Higgs boson; and fermions—the protons, neutrons, and electrons that comprise all the "stuff," present company included.
Quantum Physics
Feb 21, 2024
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SpaceX knocked out the 11th launch from the Space Coast for the year under clear blue skies on Tuesday afternoon.
Space Exploration
Feb 21, 2024
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SpaceX is set to send up the 11th launch from the Space Coast this afternoon with a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Base.
Space Exploration
Feb 21, 2024
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There are about 25,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean. The most remote of them are in North and East Polynesia, the Hawaiian Islands, and French Polynesia. Biologists have been attracted to these regions since the 18th century, ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 20, 2024
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Anoxic marine basins may be among the most viable places to conduct large-scale carbon sequestration in the deep ocean, while minimizing negative impacts on marine life. So say UC Santa Barbara researchers in a paper published ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 19, 2024
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In a study published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, a joint research group from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Stockholm University, and the California State University ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 19, 2024
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Amid the escalating threats of a warming world, and with the latest annual United Nations global climate conference (COP28) behind us, there is one critical message that's often left out of the climate change discourse. Halting ...
Ecology
Feb 18, 2024
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