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Carbon lurking in deep ocean threw ancient climate switch, say researchers
A million years ago, a longtime pattern of alternating glaciations and warm periods dramatically changed, when ice ages suddenly became longer and more intense....
Researchers 3-D print metamaterials with novel optical properties
A team of engineers at Tufts University has developed a series of 3-D printed metamaterials with unique microwave or optical properties that go beyond...
Air temperatures in the Arctic are driving system change
A new paper shows that air temperature is the "smoking gun" behind climate change in the Arctic, according to John Walsh, chief scientist for...
Unexpected rain on sun links two solar mysteries
For five months in mid 2017, Emily Mason did the same thing every day. Arriving to her office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center...
Gravitational waves helping to expose black holes, dark matter and theoretical...
Gravitational waves – the invisible ripples in the fabric of space predicted by Albert Einstein – are opening up a new era of astronomy...
Damaging Sichuan earthquakes linked to fracking operations
Two moderate-sized earthquakes that struck the southern Sichuan Province of China last December and January were probably caused by nearby fracking operations, according to...
Evolutionary changes played a crucial role in industrialization, study finds
A recent study of centuries-old French-Canadian genealogical data by a Brown University economist revealed evidence that supports his own 17-year-old theory that natural selection...
Study shows human-built offshore structures can benefit seabirds
A team of researchers from several institutions in the U.K. has found evidence that suggests some seabirds may benefit from the existence of human-built...
Hydrogen fuel cells: With a database of 500,000 materials, researchers zero...
As researchers work toward next-generation electric vehicles, they may be hitting their heads on the ceiling of what lithium ion batteries can deliver.
Meanwhile, a...
Gamma-ray blazars in the sky
When the supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies accrete material, they can eject powerful jets of charged particles at speeds approaching that...
Researcher uses lightning storms to measure the density of Earth’s upper...
No one has a firm grasp on the dimensions and activity of the lowest part of our upper atmosphere, known as the ionospheric D...
