Image: Space bubble
Things got heated on the International Space Station this week after the Multiscale Boiling experiment, known as Rubi, was successfully switched on.
Space Exploration
Sep 11, 2019
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Image: Amazon fires
The Amazon rainforest is burning.
Environment
Aug 27, 2019
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Study: How will tropical mammals react to rising temperatures?
How wildlife will react to climate change is an open question, but one of the first studies to compare the responses of tropical mammals to warmer habitats suggests the answer won't be as simple as "move to a cooler place."
Ecology
Apr 11, 2019
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Houston, we're here to help the farmers
Farmers irrigating their crops may soon be getting some help from space. In 2018, scientists launched ECOSTRESS, a new instrument now attached to the International Space Station. Its mission: to gather data on how plants ...
Environment
Mar 6, 2019
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Is winter miserable for wildlife?
While the weather outside may indeed get frightful this winter, a parka, knit hat, wool socks, insulated boots and maybe a roaring fire make things bearable for people who live in cold climates. But what about all the wildlife ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 18, 2019
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Image: Elf on the ISS
There is no escaping the holidays, even in space.
Space Exploration
Dec 19, 2018
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The warm and loving tegu lizard becomes a genetic resource
Published today in the open-access journal GigaScience is an article that presents the genome of the tegu lizard, which has mastered a trick that is highly unusual in the reptile world: it can turn on its own heating system. ...
Biotechnology
Nov 27, 2018
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No pause in global warming in the past 100 years
Global warming has been attributed to persistent increases in atmospheric greenhouse gasses (GHGs), especially in CO2, since 1870, the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Nevertheless, the upward trend in global mean ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 13, 2018
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Robotic mussels provide data on intertidal bed refugia
Summer is officially over. Gone are the days of sun, swimming, and neighborhood clambakes.
Environment
Oct 3, 2018
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How temperature affects our response to advertising
We often say that love "warms" our hearts, or fear "gives us the shivers", but the connection between emotions and physical temperature is closer than you might think.
Economics & Business
May 25, 2018
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