Search results for solar cycle 25

Plants & Animals Mar 30, 2021

Students develop unique cannabis cultivation tech

Two master's students are developing new technologies aimed at disrupting the booming cannabis, or so called 'green gold," industry.

Environment Feb 2, 2021

How to cut emissions from transport: Ban fossil fuel cars, electrify transport and get people walking and cycling

The Climate Change Commission's draft advice on how to decarbonise New Zealand's economy is refreshing, particularly as it calls on the government to start phasing out fossil fuels instead of relying on offsets and carbon ...

Environment Jan 20, 2021

World's largest lakes reveal climate change trends

Sixteen years of remote sensing data reveals that in Earth's largest freshwater lakes, climate change influences carbon fixation trends.

Space Exploration Jan 12, 2021

The obliquity of Mars: Periodic bedding in Tithonium Chasma

Earth's seasons are caused by the tilt of our planet's rotational axis to the orbital plane or obliquity. Mars' obliquity is currently about 25 degrees, which is not much different from Earth's 23 degrees. However, numerical ...

Space Exploration Jan 7, 2021

Image: The sun in 2020

These 366 images of the sun were made by ESA's Proba-2 satellite in 2020.

Space Exploration Dec 7, 2020

New sunspot cycle could be one of the strongest on record, new research predicts

In direct contradiction to the official forecast, a team of scientists led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is predicting that the Sunspot Cycle that started this fall could be one of the strongest since ...

Environment Dec 3, 2020

'Unjustifiable': new report shows how the nation's gas expansion puts Australians in harm's way

Australia's latest emissions data, released this week, contained one particularly startling, and unjustifiable, fact. Against all odds, in a year when emissions fell in almost every sector, Australia's export gas industry ...

Social Sciences Dec 1, 2020

How smart cities can serve citizens

Although cities and urban areas only make up a small proportion of the world's land mass, they are home to more than half the global population and that number is going to keep rising. As cities swell to capacity with more ...

Astronomy Oct 30, 2020

Solar cycle 25: The sun wakes up

The sun has entered its 25th solar cycle and is about to wake up. For the last few years our star has been pretty sleepy, with few sunspots, bright flares or massive ejections of magnetized plasma emanating from its surface. ...

Space Exploration Oct 1, 2020

First tests for land­ing the Mar­tian Moons eX­plo­ration rover

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission will have a German-French rover on board when it is launched in 2024. The rover will land on the Martian moon Phobos and explore its surface ...

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