Heatwaves and wildfires are setting back air quality improvements, UN finds | Air pollution
Big increases in wildfires and heatwaves supercharged by the climate crisis are hindering improvements to air quality around…
Planetary shielding and surface precipitation of solar energetic particles during BepiColombo’s close Mercury flyby
Event overview During this flyby, Mercury’s distance from the Sun was 0.315 astronomical units (AU). Figure 1a shows…
Colorado Springs man rescues bear from truck, but not the truck from the bear
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Scripps News Group) – A Colorado Springs couple is sharing a wild reminder to lock…
Scientists could have found a way to get dinosaur DNA – and it could change everything
Most of us know the plot. Maverick scientist extracts DNA from blood preserved in the stomachs of mosquitoes…
Arctic warming fuels 2 distinct climate regimes in Siberia that could wake up a methane ‘sleeping giant’
Two distinct climate regimes that could trigger runaway methane emissions are emerging in Siberia due to Arctic warming,…
On this day in space! Sept. 8, 2004: NASA’s Genesis solar wind spacecraft crashes in the Utah desert
On Sept. 8, 2004, NASA’s Genesis spacecraft crash-landed in Utah after its parachutes failed to deploy. Genesis was…
Fourteen drone flights over one ice-free point in the South Shetland Islands counted 38,080 chinstrap penguin nests where researchers once tallied nearly 90,000 breeding pairs by hand, meaning more than half the colony has disappeared in roughly three decades
Fourteen drone flights over a rocky finger of Antarctic coastline have delivered one of the starkest population counts…
Japan’s Hayabusa2 Achieves First-Ever Laser Ranging Experiment with an Asteroid
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft hit another milestone this summer, which was also a first-ever…
Hurricane Lowell’s fierce winds and rains knocks out power on Hawaii’s Kauai | Hawaii
Damaging winds and heavy rains from Hurricane Lowell pelted Hawaii’s western islands on Tuesday, knocking out power to…
Icy Exocomets Around a Distant Star Help Explain Earth’s Water
Earth’s surface water puts the planet into its own, privileged category among the Solar System’s bodies. Nowhere else…
A critically endangered green sawfish swimming beside sea turtles wins Australia’s top nature-photo prize; photographer captured it with only 3% drone battery left
Endangered Sawfish-Turtle Photo Wins Australia’s Top Nature PrizePhoto credit: South Australian Museum/ Instagram In the sunlit shallows off…
Observation of the amplified transverse thermoelectric signals by reduced-dimensionality transport anisotropy
Theoretical framework for dimensional reduction-amplified transverse TE effects The thermopower tensor (\(\overleftrightarrow{S}={\overleftrightarrow{\sigma }}^{-1}\cdot \overleftrightarrow{\alpha }\)) is determined by…