The UK and Ireland's climate was tropical 26 million years ago—here's why that matters now
Millions of years ago, the climate was much warmer and wetter than today. But exactly how much warmer and wetter?
Millions of years ago, the climate was much warmer and wetter than today. But exactly how much warmer and wetter?
Earth Sciences
Sep 14, 2024
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Earthquake scientists detected an unusual signal on monitoring stations used to detect seismic activity during September 2023. We saw it on sensors everywhere, from the Arctic to Antarctica.
Earth Sciences
Sep 14, 2024
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New research published in Science shows that for some people who believe in conspiracy theories, a fact-based conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can "pull them out of the rabbit hole." Better yet, it ...
Social Sciences
Sep 14, 2024
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A new study posits a very surprising answer to one of history's great mysteries—what killed off the Neanderthals?
Archaeology
Sep 14, 2024
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Mammals that can breathe through their backsides, homing pigeons that can guide missiles and sober worms that outpace drunk ones: these are some of the strange scientific discoveries that won this year's Ig Nobels, the quirky ...
Other
Sep 14, 2024
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This week, a billionaire made a spacewalk, archaeologists found a new, isolated Neanderthal lineage and the James Webb Space Telescope revealed the extreme outskirts of the Milky Way. And a few other things happened:
This summer was the hottest on record worldwide, outpacing even last year's blistering temperatures, according to a new report by the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service.
Environment
Sep 14, 2024
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A US astronaut stuck on the International Space Station said Friday he believed Boeing's Starliner could have carried him home, if more time had been available to work through the beleaguered spacecraft's issues.
Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2024
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In the castle gardens of Muskauer Park, which straddles both banks of the German-Polish river border, caretakers have mounted a fightback against the impacts of climate change.
Ecology
Sep 14, 2024
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