NASA’s SPHEREx on a Cosmic Ice Hunt: Uncovering the Universe’s Hidden Water
NASA’s upcoming SPHEREx mission is on a quest to track down cosmic reservoirs of frozen water and life-essential molecules in ...
Earth’s ‘Great Dying’ killed 80-90% of life. How some amphibians survived.
Namely, a group of primitive amphibians called the temnospondyls. They may have survived the Great Dying by feeding on some ...
Webb reveals planet-forming disks can last longer than previously thought
If there were such a thing as a photo album of the universe, it might include snapshots of pancake-like disks of gas and dust ...
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Next Ice Age Would Begin in 10,000 Years Without Climate Change
A new study reveals that Earth's orbital changes have been driving the cycle of ice ages and warm periods for the past 2.5 ...
Science Daily18h
Heat from the sun affects seismic activity on Earth
Researchers explore the likelihood that Earth's climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they analyzed earthquake data ...
Smithsonian Magazine18h
Earth’s Strongest Ocean Current Could Slow 20 Percent by 2050 Because of Climate Change, Study Finds
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is involved in everything from storing carbon to guarding Antarctica from invasive marine ...
Simplified model enhances understanding of long-term glacier behavior and climate change implications
University of Idaho researchers have developed a mathematical model that simplifies the way scientists understand changes in ...
New Scientist20h
The cosmic landscape of time that explains our universe's expansion
A strange new conception of how time warps across the universe does away with cosmology's most mysterious entity, dark energy ...