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Global warming influence on extreme weather events has been frequently underestimated
A new Stanford study reveals that a common scientific approach of predicting the likelihood of future extreme weather events by analyzing how frequently they...
Brand new shark(s), doo doo, doo doo doo doo
Not one, but TWO new species of the rarely seen six-gilled sawsharks have been found in the West Indian Ocean by an international team...
Greenland shed ice at unprecedented rate in 2019; Antarctica continues to...
During the exceptionally warm Arctic summer of 2019, Greenland lost 600 billion tons of ice, enough to raise global sea levels by 2.2 millimeters...
‘Wonderchicken’ fossil from the age of dinosaurs reveals origin of modern...
The oldest fossil of a modern bird yet found, dating from the age of dinosaurs, has been identified by an international team of palaeontologists.
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Crop diversity can buffer the effects of climate change
How we farm can guard against climate change and protect critical wildlife—but only if we leave single-crop farms in the dust, according to a...
Mathematicians develop new theory to explain real-world randomness
Brownian motion describes the random movement of particles in fluids, however, this revolutionary model only works when a fluid is static, or at equilibrium.
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On the origin of massive stars
This scene of stellar creation, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, sits near the outskirts of the famous Tarantula Nebula. This cloud of...
Researchers engineer the world’s first aerogels made from scrap tires
A team of NUS researchers has achieved a major technological breakthrough by converting waste rubber tires into super-light aerogels that have a wide range...
Birds are the ‘canaries in the climate-change coal mine’
A bird study led by the Australian National University (ANU) provides new understanding of the ways birds and mammals respond to a rapidly warming...
Comparisons of organic and conventional agriculture need improvement, say researchers
The environmental effects of agriculture and food are hotly debated. But the most widely used method of analysis often tends to overlook vital factors...
Common anti-parasite treatments used on cattle have devastating impacts on wildlife
Experts have stressed an urgent need to find alternatives to wormers and anti-ectoparasitic products used widely on cattle, following the findings of a study...
