The pandemic has fundamentally altered every part of our lives, not least the time we spend on digital devices. For young people in particular, the blurred line between recreational and educational screen time presents new ...
Social Sciences
Oct 8, 2021
0
4
A study published in the journal Geology rules out that extreme volcanic episodes had any influence on the massive extinction of species in the late Cretaceous. The results confirm the hypothesis that it was a giant meteorite ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Sep 20, 2021
2
1214
Nearly every nation is coming up short—most of them far short—in their efforts to fight climate change, and the world is unlikely to hold warming to the internationally agreed-upon limit, according to a new scientific ...
Environment
Sep 15, 2021
0
17
Climate change is not only a human problem; animals have to adapt to it as well. Some "warm-blooded" animals are shapeshifting and getting larger beaks, legs, and ears to better regulate their body temperatures as the planet ...
Ecology
Sep 7, 2021
4
601
A major Southern California water agency has declared a water supply alert for the first time in seven years and is asking residents to voluntarily conserve.
Environment
Aug 19, 2021
1
6
A vast wildfire in northern California, already the third-largest in the state's history, continued to grow overnight but officials said Saturday that cooler, calmer weather was giving firefighters a much-needed break.
Environment
Aug 7, 2021
0
584
Car manufacturing workers, long haul airline pilots, coal workers, shop assistants—many employees are forced to undertake the difficult and sometimes distressing challenge of finding a new occupation quickly due to technological ...
Economics & Business
Aug 5, 2021
0
18
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Italy, the US and Austria has found that changes to the human oral biome during the shift from foraging to farming were not nearly as dramatic as those that have ...
Piles of cars were strewn across a central Chinese city Thursday as shocked residents picked through the debris of a historic deluge that claimed at least 33 lives, with rescue efforts ongoing and hundreds seeking to find ...
Environment
Jul 22, 2021
0
5
A unique study of ancient diamonds has shown that the basic chemical composition of the Earth's atmosphere which makes it suitable for life's explosion of diversity was laid down at least 2.7 billion years ago. Volatile gases ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 6, 2021
2
2057
