Environment
Unintentional Implications of Fire Suppression
A new study indicates how fire suppression ensures that wildfires burn under extreme circumstances and with high severity, aggravating the effects of climate change and…
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Geography
Climate and Rock Weathering – the Biggest Carbon Sinks are Low-lying Mountain Ranges
For hundreds of millions of years, the average temperature of Earth’s surface has fluctuated by little more than 20° Celsius, allowing life to thrive on…
Astronomy
Finding novel Physics in the Debris of Colliding Neutron Stars
Neutron star mergers are a goldmine for novel physics signals, with implications for understanding the true nature of dark matter, according to Washington University in…
Astronomy
Sulfur and Life’s Origin
A new study focuses on sulfur, a chemical element that, while known, has proven remarkably resistant to scientific efforts to investigate its role in the…
Astronomy
Astronomers Measure the Heaviest Black Hole Pair ever Discovered
A team of astronomers used archived data from the Gemini North telescope to measure the heaviest pair of supermassive black holes yet discovered. The merging…
Environment
Even Passive Smokers are Extensively Colonized by Microbes
Everything is everywhere; under the right conditions, microbial populations can develop and thrive even in seemingly inhospitable environments. This is the case with inactive hydrothermal…
Astronomy
Webb discovers Proof that a Neutron Star powers the Young Supernova Remnant
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the most compelling evidence yet for neutron star emission at the site of a recently witnessed supernova. The…
Astronomy
Astronomers identify the Brightest and Fastest-growing Quasar
Astronomers used the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) to characterize a powerful quasar, discovering that it was not only the brightest of…
Geography
The Gibraltar arc is moving Westward from the Mediterranean into the Atlantic
The oceans are constantly changing, most of the time over millions of years. Researchers from Portugal’s Universidade de Lisboa and Germany’s Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz…
Geography
A New Geological Study reveals that Scandinavia originated in Greenland
A new geological study claims that the oldest Scandinavian bedrock was ‘born’ in Greenland. The study explains how continents formed and why Earth is the…
Chemistry
Harnessing Hydrogen at the Genesis of Life
A new study reveals how hydrogen gas, the energy of the future, provided energy during the beginning of life 4 billion years ago. Hydrogen gas…
Astronomy
NGC 5728’s Faint Characteristics are Exposed
A new study shows the optimal strategy for improving images obtained by the James Webb Science Telescope (JWST) through a mathematical methodology known as deconvolution.…
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