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Ecology Jul 29, 2024

The first farmers often made landscapes more biodiverse, providing lessons for rewilding today

You don't need to read the news or scroll through Instagram for long to stumble across the latest example of a rare and beautiful species that has gone extinct. Since AD1500, at least 705 vertebrate species and 571 plant ...

Environment Jul 29, 2024

Countries need to cooperate on migration as climate crisis worsens

Humanity must rethink migration as the climate crisis drives rapid global changes, researchers say.

Earth Sciences Jul 29, 2024

A blue miracle in the Eifel: How sapphires formed in volcanoes

Researchers at Heidelberg University are studying the formation of this characteristically blue-colored crystal in volcanic melts

Environment Jul 29, 2024

NASA returns to Arctic to study summer sea ice melt

What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic, and a new NASA mission is helping improve data modeling and increasing our understanding of Earth's rapidly changing climate. Changing ice, ocean, and atmospheric conditions ...

Plants & Animals Jul 29, 2024

Ornamented dragonflies better equipped to survive human threats

A study by Kim Medley and others found that dragonflies with dark wing markings have a lower risk of extinction.

Plasma Physics Jul 29, 2024

When copper becomes transparent: European XFEL creates exotic matter

Experiments at European XFEL generate states of matter that are close to what occurs in the interior of planets or in the imploding capsule of an inertial fusion reactor. At the same time, they open up a way to measure ultra-short ...

Space Exploration Jul 29, 2024

What could a future sovereign Mars economy look like?

What would the economy of a future Mars society look like, and how could it be self-sustaining while being completely sovereign from Earth and its own economy? This is what a recent study submitted to Space Policy hopes to ...

Environment Jul 29, 2024

Integrating active and passive microwave satellite data yields more precise global soil moisture mapping

Researchers from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in partnership with international colleagues, made strides in mapping surface soil moisture across the globe. They combined ...

Space Exploration Jul 29, 2024

SpaceX returns to flight with Falcon 9 launch from Kennedy Space Center

After more than two weeks grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration, SpaceX returned to launching its workhorse Falcon 9 lifting off early July 27 from Kennedy Space Center.

Paleontology & Fossils Jul 29, 2024

Complex life on Earth began around 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought, new study claims

Environmental evidence of the very first experiments in the evolution of complex life on Earth, has been uncovered by an international team of scientists.

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