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Cooling wood: Engineers create strong, sustainable solution for passive cooling
What if the wood your house was made of could save your electricity bill? In the race to save energy, using a passive cooling...
Aftershocks of 1959 earthquake rocked Yellowstone in 2017-18
On Aug. 17, 1959, back when Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, the U.S. had yet to send a human to space and the nation's...
Widespread permafrost degradation seen in high Arctic terrain
Rapid changes in terrain are taking place in Canada's high Arctic polar deserts due to increases in summer air temperatures.
A McGill-led study published recently...
Conservation goals compete at the expense of biodiversity
With an ever-growing list of threats facing biodiversity on multiple scales, conservationists struggle to determine which to address. A common reaction is to prioritize...
Melting small glaciers could add 10 inches to sea levels
A new review of glacier research data paints a picture of a future planet with a lot less ice and a lot more water....
Phase transitions: The math behind the music
Next time you listen to a favorite tune or wonder at the beauty of a natural sound, you might also end up pondering the...
Chimpanzees spotted cracking open tortoises for meat
Scientists have observed wild chimpanzees tucking into an unusual snack: tortoises, whose hard shells they crack against tree trunks before scooping out the meat.
In...
Study investigates potential risk of Taurid meteor swarm
A new study from Western University posits proof to the possibility that an oncoming swarm of meteors—likened to the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot...
Galaxies as ‘cosmic cauldrons’
Star formation within interstellar clouds of gas and dust, so-called molecular clouds, proceeds very rapidly yet highly inefficiently. Most of the gas is dispersed...
New collider concept would take quantum theories to an extreme
A new idea for smashing beams of elementary particles into one another could reveal how light and matter interact under extreme conditions that may...
The geometry of an electron determined for the first time
Physicists at the University of Basel have shown for the first time how a single electron looks in an artificial atom. A newly developed...
