Opening any new North Sea oil and gas fields is incompatible with achieving the Paris Climate Agreement goals of limiting warming to 1.5°C or holding warming to "well below 2°C" relative to preindustrial levels, finds a new ...
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A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This jet exists early enough in the cosmos that it is being illuminated by ...
Astronomy
Jun 10, 2025
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Sea cucumbers are the ocean's janitors, cleaning the seabed and recycling nutrients back into the water. But this humble marine invertebrate could also hold the key to stopping the spread of cancer.
Plants & Animals
Jun 10, 2025
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As the fracas between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump escalated to the point of Musk threatening to decommission SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, NASA revealed even more delays to Dragon's alternative, Boeing's Starliner.
Space Exploration
Jun 10, 2025
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A startling milestone has been reached in Florida's war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades.
Plants & Animals
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Astronomers from the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) in India and elsewhere have employed the Devasthal Fast Optical Telescope (DFOT) to conduct long-term photometric observations of an open ...
Dr. Xiaomin Chen, a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, has published a paper in Geophysical Research Letters that offers a new model capable of resolving turbulence and eddies within hurricanes as they ...
Environment
Jun 10, 2025
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Technology veteran IBM on Tuesday laid out a plan to have a "practical" quantum computer tackling big problems before the end of this decade.
Quantum Physics
Jun 10, 2025
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Emperor penguin populations in Antarctica have shrunk by almost a quarter as global warming transforms their icy habitat, according to new research on Tuesday that warned the losses were far worse than previously imagined.
Plants & Animals
Jun 10, 2025
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A trio of oceanographers and mathematicians at Dalhousie University, in Canada, has found evidence that the populations of two major types of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean have been decreasing by approximately ...
