Worsening air pollution sickened an estimated 1.8 million people in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province in the past month, health officials said Tuesday, as schools across the province were ordered to close for five days to ...
Environment
Nov 12, 2024
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Scientists can't know precisely when a volcano is about to erupt, but they can sometimes pick up telltale signs.
Earth Sciences
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The creation of a UN-backed global carbon market has taken a step closer to reality with governments approving new standards for the use of credits to meet climate targets.
Environment
Nov 12, 2024
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On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for the first time. On the ...
Planetary Sciences
Nov 12, 2024
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A research team from the University of Basel has succeeded in synthesizing simple, environmentally sensitive cells complete with artificial organelles. For the first time, the researchers have also been able to emulate natural ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 12, 2024
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Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers baking bread, truck drivers driving that bread to market and grocers selling it.
Evolution
Nov 12, 2024
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A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...
Astronomy
Nov 12, 2024
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Researchers have taken a novel approach to studying the interaction between certain topological metamaterials and sound wave propagation.
Nanophysics
Nov 12, 2024
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The story of Arctic greening has overlooked some main characters. At center stage are climate change and warming temperatures. Meanwhile, large grazing wildlife, such as caribou and muskoxen, also play a key role in the timing ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 12, 2024
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This year's United Nations climate summit, the Conference of the Parties (COP29) which starts in Azerbaijan this week, has been dubbed the "finance COP."
Environment
Nov 12, 2024
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