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Threshold for dangerous climate warming will likely be crossed between 2027–2042
The threshold for dangerous global warming will likely be crossed between 2027 and 2042 -- a much narrower window than the Intergovernmental Panel on...
New population of blue whales discovered in the western Indian ocean
An international team of researchers has discovered what it believes to be a new population of blue whales in the western Indian Ocean.
Blue whales...
Researchers invent method to ‘sketch’ quantum devices with focused electrons
It has long been a dream to invent new materials from the "top down" choosing which atoms go where to engineer properties of interest....
Ancient wolf pup mummy uncovered in Yukon permafrost
While water blasting at a wall of frozen mud in Yukon, Canada, a gold miner made an extraordinary discovery: a perfectly preserved wolf pup...
Artificial intelligence solves Schrödinger’s equation
A team of scientists at Freie Universität Berlin has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) method for calculating the ground state of the Schrödinger equation...
Monitor lizard should be regarded as ‘ecosystem engineer,’ researchers say
Ten years of research led by the University of South Florida has revealed that a monitor lizard should be regarded as an "ecosystem engineer,"...
Study resolves the position of fleas on the tree of life
study of more than 1,400 protein-coding genes of fleas has resolved one of the longest standing mysteries in the evolution of insects, reordering their...
Plants can be larks or night owls just like us
Plants have the same variation in body clocks as that found in humans, according to new research that explores the genes governing circadian rhythms...
The ‘crazy beast’ that lived among the dinosaurs
New research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology describes a bizarre 66 million-year-old mammal that provides profound new insights into the evolutionary history of...
The Milky Way’s primordial history and its fossil findings
Just as archaeologists dig hoping to find traces of the past, an international group of astrophysicists managed to get into the thick cloud of...
Ice sheet uncertainties could mean sea level will rise more than predicted
Sea level could rise higher than current estimates by 2100 if climate change is unchallenged, according to a new assessment.
Its authors say understanding the...
