A UN report on climate change released on Monday shows that the window to meet the goal of a 1.5-degree Celsius global warming limit is narrowing, a senior UN climate official told AFP.
Environment
Mar 20, 2023
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Much of the progress made in understanding the scope of bird deaths from building and window collisions has come as the result of citizen science, according to a newly published study. But the study also concludes that such ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 7, 2023
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New research from William & Mary published in PeerJ reveals that decals intended to reduce incidents of bird window strikes—one of the largest human-made causes of bird mortality—are only effective if decals are placed ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 2, 2023
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NASA's Wallops Flight Facility will support the launch of Rocket Lab U.S.'s first Electron rocket from Virginia at 6 p.m. EST, Monday, Jan. 23.
Planetary Sciences
Jan 13, 2023
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It's been an eventful year for space exploration, with successes including the completion of Nasa's Artemis 1 mission (finally), the inauguration of the James Webb Space Telescope, and the completion of China's Tiangong space ...
Space Exploration
Dec 27, 2022
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Collisions with glass windows on buildings, transportation shelters, noise barriers and fences are a major source of bird mortality. Public awareness of bird-window collisions has grown in recent years, thanks to surveys ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 20, 2022
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Landfalling typhoons can cause widespread damage, so accurately forecasting them is crucial. More specifically, the errors associated with a typhoon's landfall position are often more important than those related to the timing ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 12, 2022
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Cooling accounts for about 15 percent of global energy consumption. Conventional clear windows allow the sun to heat up interior spaces, which energy-guzzling air-conditioners must then cool down. But what if a window could ...
Materials Science
Nov 29, 2022
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A NASA-funded rocket mission is headed to space to measure the global electric circuit underlying the northern lights. For its second trip to space, the Aurora Current and Electrodynamics Structures II, or ACES II, instrument ...
Planetary Sciences
Nov 16, 2022
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Yet-to-be discovered axions and axion-like particles may be the key to explaining some of the deepest puzzles of our universe, such as dark matter and charge-parity violation in strong interactions. Several recent theories ...
Plasma Physics
Jul 29, 2022
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