The classic scientific explanation for why the dinosaurs aren’t here nowadays is that a huge asteroid of about 5 km in its radius smashed into Earth about 66 million years ago. Unfortunately for our giant friends or not, they didn’t ...
Greenhouse gas emissions continue to concern experts, as the weather across the world is not looking too good, either. United in Science issued a new worrying report, warning that governments had been sloppy when it comes to efforts to prevent ...
The Nullarbor Plain in southern Australia, once home to a massive ancient ocean, hides many mysteries. It stretches for over a thousand kilometers and is now a scrubby desert on limestone bedrock. Recent discovery tries to shed light upon the ...
Chinese scientists have found a brand-new mineral called Changesite-(Y) in lunar samples returned by China’s Chang’e-5 lunar spacecraft in December 2020. The mineral resembles a diamond a lot due to its crystal clear appearance. China is, at present, the third ...
To make matter even colder than the darkest parts of space, a team of researchers has managed to chill it to within a billionth of a degree of absolute zero. The experiment, run at the University of Kyoto in Japan, ...
New data reveal that Doomsday Glacier is perilously close to collapse than experts believed. What’s more concerning is that there’s nothing we can do anymore. The glacier had episodes of fast retreat during the previous several centuries, which might be ...
Choosing climate-friendly foods is simpler than you would imagine, especially if you are concerned about the environment, climate change, and sustainability. But where to start? Researchers developed an algorithm to calculate the environmental impact of 57,000 food items using publicly ...
According to significant research, considerable areas of Amazon may never recover, and that’s probably one of the saddest things to happen to our planet. Scientists found that in some regions of the Amazon, environmental devastation is so severe that the ...
Scientists warn that we’re not ready for the next supervolcano eruption, and that’s quite shocking. Before we start panicking, which shouldn’t be the case, Earth already has a lot of threats, some of which we have just recently encountered. That ...
NASA discovered previously unknown Antarctic ice loss that’s concerning. The loss from ice shelves is now estimated to be twice as much as it was once, and new research, including the first map of iceberg calving, shows how the continent ...