‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis | Environment
When Stefan Rahmstorf walked through the ruined streets of Dresden after the river Elbe flooded in 2002, and…
Strange gamma rays could reveal how stars forge heavy elements
Researchers led by scientists at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, have identified the source of…
Heat-transfer fins give phase change materials a boost – Physics World
Heat-transfer fins give phase change materials a boost – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from…
In 2020 scientists tracking a beaked whale logged a dive that seemed physically impossible: 3 hours and 42 minutes underwater on a single lungful of air, by far the longest dive ever recorded in any mammal on Earth
Here is a puzzle that still bothers the people who study it. Take a Cuvier’s beaked whale, work…
NASA’s call for volunteers to simulate a Mars mission : Short Wave : NPR
A crew inside NASA’s Human Exploration Research Analog looks up from the habitat’s ladder well for a team…
Wildfires: Prevention is the best defence, UN says
The warning comes from the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) which said that more than 434,000 hectares have already burned…
K2 Space raises $500 million for commercial, defense satellite expansion
WASHINGTON — K2 Space has raised $500 million in new funding, more than doubling its valuation in seven…
Three family members killed in blaze with cause unknown | The Senior
Authorities have begun investigating the cause of a blaze that’s claimed three lives. Photo: Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS…
Strange Discovery on Mars Surprises Scientists
NASA’s Curiosity rover just made a strange discovery. The vehicle stumbled upon honeycomb-like patterns of polygons on the…
China generates less than half of its electricity from coal for the first time
BEIJING — China, the world’s largest coal consumer, generated less than 50% of its electricity from the fossil…
Olympus Mons stands nearly three times the height of Everest, yet standing at its base you would not see a mountain at all, because its slopes rise so gently across roughly 600 kilometres that the summit sits well beyond the Martian horizon and the ground at your feet looks almost flat
If you approached Olympus Mons from the Martian plains, the first thing you met might not be a…
What’s the Biggest Thing in the Universe?
Think about the largest thing you have ever seen. Maybe it was a mountain, a skyscraper, or a…