The first dinosaur bone was dug up many centuries ago, in 1676. At that time, the humongous femur was thought to belong to a giant, not a Megalosaurus. We are more than three centuries apart from that discovery. Archaeologists are ...
Global ice is disappearing at an alarming rate, and it seems we can’t stop it. New research brings awareness about this phenomenon, unveiling some shocking facts. Our planet has suffered a loss of 28 trillion tonnes of ice in a ...
Microplastics represent a threat to oceans, and it has been proved how much danger can cause to aquatic organisms and humans. A new technique aims to fight that by eliminating one of the biggest contributors: the microfibers from our clothes. ...
Soon, climate change will bring a regionally rough shifting of the tropical belt, threatening food security for billions of people. New research discusses how the affected rain belt will move north in parts of the Eastern Hemisphere and south in ...
Traveling to the Red Planet might take us a while, but growing a green crop is almost impossible. Or not? Astronauts spending time on Mars will have to rely a lot on ISRU (in-situ resource utilization), including food because sending ...
Coral reefs are best known to reside in Australia’s famous Great Barrier Reef, but that’s not entirely true. Over 5,000 species (cold-water corals) in the deep and dark regions of the world’s oceans are ready to be discovered. Cold-water corals ...
According to the latest NOAA research, 2020 is now the second-hottest year on record, surpassing 2016. The temperature recordings include an average land and ocean surface temperature of 0.98 degrees Celsius (1.76 degrees F), while in the Northern Hemisphere, 1.28 ...
Back in 2019, the first bright trails of the Starlink satellites flourished across the night. Such an intriguing event, however, made scientists worry. They believed that the satellites would overshadow the stars. Now, Starlink is almost invisible to the naked ...
Microplastics are now all around us. They can be in the food we eat, animals, our children, and oceans. Scientists warn us: it’s not going to stop! The small plastic fragments can be found on the world’s highest peak or, ...
The carbon dioxide levels will be a serious issue in 2021. Britain’s Met Office reported that this year the levels are 50 % higher. Researchers predicted the annual coverage CO2 concentration estimated at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii this ...