Before the advent of modern observational and modeling techniques, understanding how the ocean behaved required piecing together disparate data—often separated by decades in time—from a handful of sources around the world. ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 22, 2018
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Camp Fire in northern California, US, has, without doubt, been one of the state's most destructive. This animation uses data from different Copernicus Sentinels to show the spread of aerosols and smoke.
Environment
Nov 22, 2018
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For thousands of years, the people of North Sentinel island have been isolated from the rest of the world.
Environment
Nov 22, 2018
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For the last decade, scientists have been making giant leaps in their ability to build and control systems based on the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics, which describe the behavior of particles at the subatomic scale.
Quantum Physics
Nov 22, 2018
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Facebook's outgoing head of communications is taking the blame for hiring Definers, the public relations firm doing opposition research on the company's critics, including billionaire philanthropist George Soros.
Internet
Nov 22, 2018
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Squatting on spongy soil, a climate scientist lays a small cone-shaped device to "measure the breathing" of a peat bog in the northern part of Canada's Quebec province.
Environment
Nov 22, 2018
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The world is not moving fast enough to curb global warming and needs immediate action to address the issue, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told an online climate change conference Thursday.
Environment
Nov 22, 2018
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A rarely seen shark embryo. Corals up to 7 feet (2 meters) high. Sponges with sharp edges.
Environment
Nov 22, 2018
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An active Alaska volcano is ramping up, spewing ash emissions nearly 3 miles (5 kilometers) into the air.
Environment
Nov 22, 2018
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A new supercomputer designed to speed up research on two of the UK's most important battery research projects has been installed at University College London (UCL). Named Michael, after the UK's most famous battery scientist, ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 22, 2018
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