Record heat unleashes deadly floods from New York to Libya
Extreme heat is usually associated with drought and wildfires. But across five continents this year, it's also unleashed a different kind of disaster: deadly flooding.
Extreme heat is usually associated with drought and wildfires. But across five continents this year, it's also unleashed a different kind of disaster: deadly flooding.
Environment
Oct 9, 2023
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A new study in Nature Sustainability—published by researchers from Oxford University, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, the European Institute on Economics and the Environment ...
Environment
Sep 25, 2023
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe has racked up an impressive list of superlatives in its first five years of operations: It's the closest spacecraft to the sun, the fastest human-made object and the first mission to ever "touch ...
Space Exploration
Sep 22, 2023
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Holidays are making a comeback after several years of disruption caused by the COVID pandemic. Nearly 4 billion passengers boarded international flights in 2022, up from fewer than 2 billion in 2020. Recent research suggests ...
Environment
Sep 15, 2023
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China, India and the U.S. have all achieved landing on the moon in the 2020s.
Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2023
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This September, after traveling billions of miles through our solar system, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will cruise past Earth with an extraordinary delivery. As it passes, it will release a mini-fridge size capsule containing ...
Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2023
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Researchers from the University of Tsukuba have mathematically derived the fundamental limit of heat current flowing into a quantum system comprising numerous quantum mechanical particles in relation to the particle count.
Quantum Physics
Sep 5, 2023
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Radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) are the power plants of the interplanetary spacecraft. Or at least they have been for going on 50 years now. But they have significant drawbacks, the primary one being that they're ...
Space Exploration
Aug 14, 2023
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The world is burning. Death Valley, Calif., shattered the record in July 2023 for the hottest temperature on earth. Meanwhile, July 2023 is now the hottest month in recorded history and scientists have noted heat waves are ...
Environment
Aug 12, 2023
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A study led by researchers at the Energy Institute has proposed a new energy system for a "smart farm" in South Korea which could reduce emissions, providing a blueprint for more sustainable farming practices.
Biotechnology
Aug 3, 2023
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