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Recent Atlantic ocean warming unprecedented in nearly 3,000 years
Taking advantage of unique properties of sediments from the bottom of Sawtooth Lake in the Canadian High Arctic, climate scientists have extended the record...
Researchers synthesize room temperature superconducting material
Compressing simple molecular solids with hydrogen at extremely high pressures, University of Rochester engineers and physicists have, for the first time, created material that...
The mountains of Pluto are snowcapped, but not for the same reasons as on...
In 2015, the New Horizons space probe discovered spectacular snowcapped mountains on Pluto, which are strikingly similar to mountains on Earth. Such a landscape...
The deep sea is slowly warming
New research reveals temperatures in the deep sea fluctuate more than scientists previously thought and a warming trend is now detectable at the bottom...
Fuels, not fire weather, control carbon emissions in boreal forest
As climate warming stokes longer fire seasons and more severe fires in the North American boreal forest, being able to calculate how much carbon...
Atmospheric dust levels are rising in the Great Plains
Got any spaces left on that 2020 bingo card? Pencil in "another Dust Bowl in the Great Plains." A study from University of Utah...
Restoring 30% of the world’s ecosystems in priority areas could stave off extinctions and...
Returning specific ecosystems that have been replaced by farming to their natural state in all continents worldwide would rescue the majority of land-based species...
A newly discovered protein repairs DNA
Researchers from the University of Seville, in collaboration with colleagues from the Universities of Murcia and Marburg (Germany) have identified a new protein that...
Bringing a power tool from math into quantum computing
The Fourier transform is an important mathematical tool that decomposes a function or dataset into a its constituent frequencies, much like one could decompose...
Popularity of COVID-19 conspiracies and links to vaccine ‘hesitancy’ revealed by international study
A new study of beliefs and attitudes toward COVID-19 in five different countries—UK, US, Ireland, Mexico and Spain—has identified how much traction some prominent...
World first study shows that some microorganisms can bend the rules of evolution
The dominant thinking in evolution focuses on inheritance between parent and offspring – or 'vertical gene transfer (VGT)'.
But now scientists are paying more attention...
