Hurricanes threaten North American coastlines every year, and they appear to be intensifying as climate changes. Similar storms can also hit colder regions to the far north, and new research suggests they will intensify, ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 16, 2022
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220,000 metric tons of methane are likely to have been released from the ruptures in the Nord Stream gas pipelines, new satellite data has revealed.
Environment
Nov 15, 2022
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So far, little is known about the interior of neutron stars, those extremely compact objects that can form after the death of a star. The mass of our sun or even more is compressed into a sphere with the diameter of a large ...
Astronomy
Nov 15, 2022
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A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young solar system started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of planets growing at the same time as their parent star.
Astronomy
Nov 14, 2022
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New research uses NASA satellite observations and advanced computing to chronicle wetlands lost (and found) around the globe.
Earth Sciences
Nov 8, 2022
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Using images captured by satellites, researchers in the University of Oxford's Department of Physics and RAL Space have confirmed that the January 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano produced the highest-ever ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 3, 2022
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Projections of future extreme precipitation change can be made more reliable by using a constraint from observed present-day precipitation variability, which reduces the uncertainties in projections by 20-40% over the mid-to-high ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 3, 2022
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Urban smog is a major threat to human health. New sensors and data-collection techniques will help to improve air quality.
Planetary Sciences
Nov 2, 2022
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Hybrids of two common North American songbirds, the black-capped and mountain chickadee, are more likely to be found in places where humans have altered the landscape in some way, finds new University of Colorado Boulder ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 28, 2022
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King's experimental physicist, Dr. Teppei Katori, is a lead analyst of data gathered by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in the search for quantum gravity. The observatory, buried deep beneath the Antarctic ice, detects astrophysical ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 27, 2022
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