Viewed from the Voyager 1 space probe as it passed beyond the edge of the solar system, Earth and Venus might not look too different—same diameter, similar mass and distance from the sun.
Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2023
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A bowl of water sprinkled with pepper flakes sits ready on Mahesh Bandi's kitchen countertop. Bandi, a professor of physics at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), wets the tip of a ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 24, 2018
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Research undertaken by the University of Southampton and its associates in Venice has revealed that the sea surface temperature (SST) in coastal regions is rising as much as ten times faster than the global average of 0.13 ...
Environment
Sep 27, 2012
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Urbanization could cause 26 percent more rain to fall over Jeddah city than over the surrounding desert during storms.
Earth Sciences
Jun 1, 2020
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The design of molecular systems on surfaces is crucial for the fundamental understanding of electronic transport. The development of molecular electronics, spintronic devices and quantum computation will only happen along ...
Nanophysics
May 20, 2021
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Fifty years ago, U.S. scientists launched a satellite that dramatically changed how we see the world.
Environment
Jul 22, 2022
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An international team led by Prof. Fu Jianning and Dr. Zong Weikai from Beijing Normal University released the first light result of medium-resolution spectroscopic observations undertaken by the LAMOST-Kepler/K2 Survey. ...
Astronomy
Nov 30, 2020
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Europe's massive heat wave is on its way out—and it's leaving a slew of broken temperature records in its wake. Many countries were gripped by temperatures above 104 Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) between June 26 and June ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 3, 2019
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The effects of extreme warming have been felt across the globe in recent years, especially with intensely hot summers in eastern Asia, western Europe, and North America. On July 21, 2017, a weather station in Shanghai, China, ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 26, 2019
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"Plant more trees" is often the first idea that comes to mind when we think about how to prevent further climate change or at least adapt to its impacts. There are good reasons for this. Multiple studies have shown that as ...
Environment
Jul 7, 2021
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