Currently, half of the world’s measured annual rain falls in just 12 days, according to a new analysis of data collected at weather stations across the globe. By the century’s end, climate models project that this lopsided distribution of rain and snow is likely to become even more skewed, with half of the annual precipitation ...
After a Chinese scientist claimed to have edited genes of babies, authorities have halted all human gene-editing research in the country. Meanwhile, the scientist has apparently been missing for the past several days. The breakthrough and the backlash against the Chinese scientist In November last month, He Jiankui, a professor from the Southern University of Science ...
A dead whale, washed ashore in eastern Indonesia, surprised environmentalists when they discovered that the creature had 115 plastic cups in its stomach. Four plastic bottles, 25 plastic bags, a nylon sack, and 1,000 other plastic items were also found inside. In total, about 13 pounds of plastic waste was recovered. The dead whale “Although ...
An international research team, including The Australian National University (ANU), has used the Kepler space telescope in coordination with ground-based telescopes to witness the first moments of a star dying in unprecedented detail. The astronomers witnessed the star dying a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, as part of a project that ...
New research disputes a long-held view that our earliest tool-bearing ancestors contributed to ancient mammal extinctions in Africa over the last several million years. Instead, the researchers argue that long-term environmental change drove these mammal extinctions, mainly in the form of grassland expansion likely caused by falling atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels. Tyler Faith, curator ...
University of Sydney astronomers, working with international colleagues, have found a star system like none seen before in our galaxy. Scientists believe that one of the stars — about 8,000 light-years from Earth — is the first known candidate in the Milky Way to produce a dangerous gamma-ray burst, among the most energetic events in ...
The extinction of woolly mammoths has been a hotly debated topic among scientists, with theories of asteroid collisions, diseases, and human hunting coming up as probable causes. A newly discovered crater in Greenland now gives credence to the idea that the mammoth extinction may have been brought about as a result of an asteroid collision. ...
Slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates under the ocean drag about three times more water down into the deep Earth than previously estimated, according to a first-of-its-kind seismic study that spans the Mariana Trench. The observations from the deepest ocean trench in the world have important implications for the global water cycle, according to researchers in ...
The quantum world is a bizarre place. Here, things can exist in two places at once. They can even tunnel through seemingly impenetrable boundaries. An even more interesting phenomenon of the quantum world is entanglement in which groups of particles correlate regardless of how far they are from each other. Using entanglement, it is possible to ...
In November 2017, scientists pointed NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope toward the object known as ‘Oumuamua — the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system. The infrared Spitzer was one of many telescopes pointed at ‘Oumuamua in the weeks after its discovery that October. ‘Oumuamua was too faint for Spitzer to detect when it looked more ...
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