Extreme heat cancels climate change event on adapting to extreme heat
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Hot Jupiter Endures Star-Powered Barbecue
You’re the grillmaster at the annual family 4th of July BBQ and you’re sweating bullets standing over the…
Different sperm whale ‘dialects’ detected on separate sides of the Mediterranean | Whales
From “Howdy” to “G’day”, English – like other languages – is rich in dialects. Now researchers have found…
Jonathan McDowell has been tracking every object in orbit since 1989 — a one-person catalog that started as a weekly email newsletter and became the source governments and newsrooms cite when they need to know how many Starlink satellites are actually up there
Jonathan McDowell has been keeping a detailed running tally of what humans have put in orbit, and his…
‘Climate change is a form of oppression’: the voices affected most by environmental crisis | Documentary films
In an age of division, director Josh Fox is hoping to bring people of all kinds together. Specifically,…
We discovered a new rock type containing garnet inside a meteorite fragment from Mars
On Earth, garnet is best known as the fiery red January birthstone — popular in jewellery since the…
For 400 years, sailors crossing parts of the Indian Ocean have reported patches of sea glowing pale white from horizon to horizon, until satellite imagery finally captured the phenomenon and suggested it is likely the light of trillions of microscopic bioluminescent bacteria switching on at once
On the night of 25 January 1849, Captain Kempthorne of the ship Moozuffer recorded in his log that…
Endangered fin whale found dead on cruise ship’s bow in Alaska
Officials are investigating how the 61-foot fin whale, later found to be pregnant, ended up on the vessel…
The record-breaking journey that made astronaut Christina Koch a GWR ICON
Christina took up new challenges during her travels. Already an experienced rock climber, she took up ice climbing…
Great white sharks ‘likely in Isles waters’
A website dedicated to the legendary 1975 movie Jaws and shark research has suggested the waters off…
Most of an octopus’s brain cells live in its arms, not in its head — only about 8 percent of its 500 million neurons sit inside the central brain, with the rest spread across the eight arms and the optic lobes behind its eyes, in a body design some neuroscientists describe as the closest thing to an alien mind humanity has ever studied
The last common ancestor of human beings and octopuses was a small, flatworm-like creature that lived in the…
Helicopter Drops 180 Tons of Sand and Gravel on Swedish River to Revive Ecosystem Damaged by Decades of Exploitation
The Abramsån River, a tributary of the Råneälven located about 45 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle in…