Earth & Climate

Earth & Climate

Arctic climate research with a tethered balloon

Measurements with a tethered balloon on the coast of Ny-Ålesund on Svalbard. (Image: Sebastian Zeppenfeld / TROPOS) The lower air layers play a crucial...
Ashton Edwards -
Earth & Climate

Mysterious disappearance of drugs in US aquarium may lead to discovery of new species

For months, researchers put medication in the water and for months they saw it disappear inexplicably. But the mystery is now solved. In Chicago...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Dramatic increase in lianas can finally be explained

The creepers made famous by Tarzan are rapidly gaining ground in neotropical areas. It's not good news, but researchers now think they know...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

City heat: Tremendous stress trend

An oppressively hot trend is emerging. (Image: Tomwang112 / iStock) Almost a quarter of the world's population is now affected: exposure to urban heat...
Ashton Edwards -
Earth & Climate

Photo worth seeing: Optimized for 3D printing

Here you can see the electron microscope image of a nickel alloy that has been specially optimized for 3D printing by US researchers. ...
Elijah Burt -
Earth & Climate

Deep beneath our feet is enough water to fill the Grand Canyon 4800 times

The ice sheets were believed to be the largest water reservoir on Earth. But scientists need to get back to that now. in the...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

These are the first drone images taken from inside a hurricane

Using a special drone vessel, researchers have captured the violence at sea caused by a hurricane. The images are impressive. The images were taken...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Scientists want to tackle ‘neglected stepchild of greenhouse gases’

It is high time that we – after CO2 – also remove methane from the atmosphere, according to American researchers. Our climate is changing and...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

When fruit flies sleep, part of their brain stays awake

New research proves that fruit flies also respond to scents in their sleep. When we humans sleep, there are really only two kinds of stimuli...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Your cat needs you more than you think

Cats are known as independent and sometimes even downright aloof animals. But the evidence that they really do need their owners is mounting. The...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Largest iceberg ever appears to have formed in a slightly different way than thought

A languishing ice cream blend turns out to be the culprit. And with that, Antarctic ice shelves are a threat richer. In July 2017,...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Thanks to a clever trick, monogamous skink can still give birth to other men’s children with impunity

Researchers discovered this by accident. the tree skink (Egernia striolata) is usually monogamous. Females only mate with their mate. Together they have offspring....
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Volcanic eruptions promoted the rise of the dinosaurs

230 million years ago, a wet climate could have favored the rise of the dinosaurs. (Image: University of Birmingham / pixabay) During the late...
Ashton Edwards -
Earth & Climate

Light pollution has increased by at least 49 percent in 25 years

And that's still a conservative estimate; in reality, global light pollution may have increased by 270 percent(!) in a quarter of a century. British...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Hundreds of parasites are also threatened with extinction with primates and that can have major consequences

Parasites: they are not so huggable, but they are very important and in danger. The future doesn't look bright for many of the primates...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Photo worth seeing: Sibling love among elephants

Only children have a harder time - this also applies to Asian elephants like these wrangling young animals. If the elephant calves have...
Elijah Burt -
Earth & Climate

Is the woolly mammoth the solution to our climate problem?

A new company plans to bring the woolly mammoth to life and use it to combat some of the most worrying impacts of climate...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

New company aims to bring woolly mammoth to life – but can it?

If it's up to the Colossal company, woolly mammoths will soon be stomping the earth again. And if you look at the slick...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Microchips can now fly too

Scientists have created a flying microchip, making it the smallest flying device in the world. The flying microchip is not much bigger than a grain...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

It has now been scientifically proven: men are sometimes really superfluous

An international team of researchers shows that some species can survive for a long time even in the complete absence of males. Many species –...
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