A shark mystery millions of years in the making
The biggest shark attack in history did not involve humans.
Evolution
Jun 3, 2021
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News tagged with planetary science
Earth's history sends climate warning
A new study of historical carbon dioxide levels stresses urgent action is needed to avoid prehistoric levels of climate change.
Earth Sciences
Jun 1, 2021
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Comprehensive electronic-structure methods for materials design
Nicola Marzari, head of the Theory and Simulation of Materials laboratory at EFPL and director of NCCR MARVEL, has just published a review of electronic-structure methods as part of a special edition Insight on Computational ...
Materials Science
May 27, 2021
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Researchers create new lunar map to help guide future exploration missions
A new map including rover paths of the Schrödinger basin, a geologically important area of the moon, could guide future exploration missions.The map was created by a team of interns at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, ...
Planetary Sciences
May 4, 2021
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Scientists warn humanity does not have effective tools to resist tsunamis
An international team of scientists from 20 countries identified 47 problems that hinder the successful prevention and elimination of the consequences of tsunamis. Based on the carried out analysis, the world's leading experts ...
Earth Sciences
May 3, 2021
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Antarctic ice-sheet melting to lift sea level higher than thought, study says
Global sea level rise associated with the possible collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been significantly underestimated in previous studies, meaning sea level in a warming world will be greater than anticipated, ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2021
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Time for a mass extinction metrics makeover
Researchers at Yale and Princeton say the scientific community sorely needs a new way to compare the cascading effects of ecosystem loss due to human-induced environmental change to major crises of the past.
Plants & Animals
Apr 28, 2021
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Probing deep space with Interstellar
When the four-decades-old Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft entered interstellar space in 2012 and 2018, respectively, scientists celebrated. These plucky spacecraft had already traveled 120 times the distance from the Earth ...
Astronomy
Apr 26, 2021
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Size of raindrops can help identify potentially habitable planets outside our solar system
One day, humankind may step foot on another habitable planet. That planet may look very different from Earth, but one thing will feel familiar—the rain.
Astronomy
Apr 5, 2021
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First clues to the start of Earth's supercontinent cycle found
Curtin University research has uncovered the first solid clues about the very beginning of the supercontinent cycle of Earth, finding it was kick-started two billion years ago.
Earth Sciences
Mar 24, 2021
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