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Ozone-depleting substances caused half of late 20th-century Arctic warming, says study
A scientific paper published in 1985 was the first to report a burgeoning hole in Earth's stratospheric ozone over Antarctica. Scientists determined the cause...
Tuberculosis bacteria survive in amoebae found in soil
Scientists from the University of Surrey and University of Geneva have discovered that the bacterium which causes bovine TB can survive and grow in...
Chemists find fungal shrapnel in the air
In a discovery that has implications for our understanding of the air we breathe, UCI chemists report that they've found nanoscale fragments of fungal...
Ultrafast camera takes 1 trillion frames per second of transparent objects and phenomena
A little over a year ago, Caltech's Lihong Wang developed the world's fastest camera, a device capable of taking 10 trillion pictures per second....
First results from the Dark Energy Survey
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) program uses the patterns of cosmic structure as seen in the spatial distribution of hundreds of millions of galaxies...
Local water availability is permanently reduced after planting forests
River flow is reduced in areas where forests have been planted and does not recover over time, a new study has shown. Rivers in...
A new method for dating ancient earthquakes
Constraining the history of earthquakes produced by bedrock fracturing is important for predicting seismic activity and plate tectonic evolution. In a new study published...
Scientists measure the evolving energy of a solar flare’s explosive first minutes
Toward the end of 2017, a massive new region of magnetic field erupted on the Sun's surface next to an existing sunspot. The powerful...
Walking with atoms—chemical bond making and breaking recorded in action
Ever since it was proposed that atoms are building blocks of the world, scientists have been trying to understand how and why they bond...
Material developed which is heat-insulating and heat-conducting at the same time
Styrofoam or copper—both materials have very different properties with regard to their ability to conduct heat. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer...
Sea lions yawn due to anxiety
Researchers have analysed these animals for 14 months, concluding that the frequency of their yawns increases immediately after a social conflict among members of...
