A team of scientists from the University of California, Irvine has found evidence of significant mass loss in East Antarctica's Totten and Moscow University glaciers, which, if they fully collapsed, could add 5 meters (16.4 ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 26, 2018
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The early Earth might have been habitable much earlier than thought, according to new research from a group led by University of Chicago scientists.
Earth Sciences
Jun 5, 2018
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Geologists have corrected a mix-up that made an ancient geological structure in the central U.S. seem hundreds of miles shorter than it really is. The biggest failed rift known to geologists is even bigger than originally ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 8, 2017
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Lurking in oceans, rivers and lakes around the world are tiny, ancient animals known to few people. Bryozoans, tiny marine creatures that live in colonies, are "living fossils"—their lineage goes back to the time when multi-celled ...
Archaeology
Nov 17, 2017
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Women of color working in astronomy and planetary science report more gender and racial harassment than any other gender or racial group in the field, according to a new study revealing widespread harassment in these scientific ...
Social Sciences
Jul 10, 2017
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Many scientists have developed models to predict the total number of species on Earth—including those not yet discovered—of an animal or plant group, but University of Chicago researchers have developed the first such ...
Ecology
Apr 3, 2017
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From the fight against climate change to dwindling budgets for research, the US scientific community fears the worst under Donald Trump, seen by many as the most hostile to science of any American president in history.
Environment
Nov 16, 2016
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How do you make half the mass of two continents disappear? To answer that question, you first need to discover that it's missing.
Earth Sciences
Oct 5, 2016
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NASA pushed back against a congressional proposal to slash more than $300 million in funding from its branch focused on climate issues.
Space Exploration
May 1, 2015
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Diamonds are beautiful and enigmatic. Though chemical reactions that create the highly coveted sparkles still remain a mystery, a professor from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is studying a rare rock covered in diamonds ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 5, 2015
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