A seasonal imbalance in the amount of solar energy absorbed and released by the planet Mars is a likely cause of the dust storms that have long intrigued observers, a team of researchers reports.
Planetary Sciences
May 17, 2022
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A new study lead by Dr. Ellen Coombs, who studied her Ph.D. at The Natural History Museum and University College London, has revealed for the first time that the diversity we see in whale (Cetacea) skulls was achieved through ...
Plants & Animals
May 10, 2022
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There's something wonderful about sitting under the night sky, watching a meteor shower play out overhead. However, observers in the southern hemisphere usually get the short end of the stick, with most of the best showers ...
Astronomy
May 4, 2022
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NASA's Scientific Balloon Program is back in Wanaka, New Zealand, for another flight test of its super pressure balloon, or SPB, technology to support science missions for longer flight durations, with flights running up ...
Planetary Sciences
Apr 27, 2022
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Antarctic sea-ice has expanded over the period of continuous satellite monitoring, which seemingly contradicts ongoing global warming resulting from increasing concentrations of greenhouse gasses. In a study, published in ...
Environment
Apr 22, 2022
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An international team of astronomers have used ground-based telescopes, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), to track Neptune's atmospheric temperatures over a 17-year period. They ...
Planetary Sciences
Apr 11, 2022
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In the Southern Hemisphere, a zonally oriented high pressure belt extends around the globe in the subtropics and middle latitudes, while lower pressure covers the high latitudes. The pressure in these two regions fluctuates. ...
Environment
Mar 31, 2022
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Ozone may be weakening one of the Earth's most important cooling mechanisms, making it a more significant greenhouse gas than previously thought, research has found.
Environment
Mar 31, 2022
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What can fire reveal about Earth's past? This is a question that a group of researchers linked to the Postgraduate Program in Environment and Development (PPGAD, acronym in Portuguese) of the University of Vale do Taquari–Univates ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Mar 30, 2022
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Using data from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC), researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), in collaboration with scientists from the VMC team, confirmed the existence of elongated ...
Astronomy
Mar 29, 2022
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