Changes in ocean wave and storm conditions have not caused long-term impacts on sandy coastlines in the past 30 years, a new study has found.
Earth Sciences
Jul 19, 2023
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After carbon dioxide, methane is the second most common greenhouse gas caused by human activity. Moreover, over a 20-year period, its global warming potential is more than 80 times that of carbon dioxide. The largest known ...
Environment
Jul 18, 2023
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The initial COVID-19 restrictions in March 2020—particularly stay-at-home orders—put the brakes on driving for many Americans, resulting in fewer cars on the highways and dramatically fewer crashes. But then a curious ...
Social Sciences
Jul 13, 2023
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In an experimental study published in PNAS Nexus, researchers explore the visible impact flash that is created by high-velocity impacts.
Space Exploration
Jul 13, 2023
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Two teams of AI engineers have independently designed, built and tested two new AI-based weather-forecasting systems that have been found to be as accurate as existing systems.
Dogs who slow down physically also slow down mentally, according to a new study from North Carolina State University. Measuring gait speed in senior dogs could be a simple way to monitor their health and to document decline ...
Veterinary medicine
Jun 27, 2023
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A trio of astronomers from Armagh Observatory & Planetarium and Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), CSIC-INTA has found that a white dwarf that was recently projected to make its way toward our solar system will not do so.
In nature, smaller animals often attach themselves to larger ones to "hitch a ride" and save energy migrating large distances. In paper published on June 21 in the journal Current Biology, researchers show how microscopic ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 21, 2023
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RIKEN scientists have demonstrated a way to make small tweaks in weather systems as a means to prevent, or at least reduce, the severity of extreme weather events such as torrential rain. They did this by taking advantage ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 20, 2023
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A counterintuitive facet of the physics of photon interference has been uncovered by three researchers of Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. In an article published this month in Nature Photonics, they have proposed ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 15, 2023
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