Tunnels deep underground in North Yorkshire are providing a unique opportunity to study how humans might be able to live and operate on the moon or on Mars.
Space Exploration
May 23, 2023
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NASA has selected a new mission to help humanity better understand Earth's dynamic atmosphere—specifically, ice clouds that form at high altitudes throughout tropical and sub-tropical regions. The PolSIR instrument—short ...
Planetary Sciences
May 23, 2023
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A study published in Scientific Reports shows that catastrophic volcanic mudflows, known as lahars, can be effectively monitored with infrasound remote sensing technology.
Earth Sciences
May 17, 2023
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It has long been a dream for Earth scientists to have a numerical model that can better represent compound multiple-scale processes in the real-world Earth system. Apart from requiring deep understanding on physics of geo-fluid ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 26, 2023
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Over the past 25 years, the Northeast has experienced the largest increase in extreme precipitation nationally. Prior research has shown that the amount of extreme precipitation— rain or snow that results in one- to two ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 17, 2023
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In times of environmental upheaval, how do communities of organisms respond? When entire species are wiped out, do surviving species move in and take over, or do new species immigrate to fill the gaps?
Evolution
Apr 13, 2023
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Two prominent origin-of-life chemists have published a new hypothesis for how the first sugars—which were necessary for life to evolve—arose on the early Earth.
Biochemistry
Apr 13, 2023
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Can a rapid warming of Earth trigger tipping points in our climate? For decades scientists have debated if today's warming can strongly amplify itself by triggering a catastrophic release of greenhouse gases. New research, ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 10, 2023
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The overturning circulation of the Pacific Ocean "flipped" during the last ice age, altering the placement of ancient waters rich in carbon dioxide, according to Earth system scientists at the University of California, Irvine.
Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2023
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NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies detected an asteroid that will pass Earth by 108,758 miles this weekend, which is closer than the moon's distance from Earth 238,855 miles away.
Astronomy
Mar 24, 2023
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