Forest Preservation, Tree Planting Could Actually Worsen Climate Change
Tree Planting Efforts Could Actually Worsen Climate Change With wildfires turning forests into “massive carbon emitters,” planting trees in some…
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Resilience, a Private Japanese Spacecraft, Crash-Landed on the Moon
A Japanese Spacecraft Has Crash-Landed on the Moon—Again Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and an…
Lake Natron: The caustic, blood-red lake in Tanzania that turns animals to ‘stone’
QUICK FACTS Name: Lake Natron Location: Northern Tanzania Coordinates: -2.332009081285983, 36.03373896004504 Why it’s incredible: The lake is so alkaline, it…
US stops endorsing covid-19 shots for kids – are other vaccines next?
US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr Tasos Katopodis/Getty One of the top vaccine experts at…
Alan Turing’s seminal papers, almost destroyed by a shredder, head to auction
A trove of Alan Turing’s papers, including his own personal copy of his PhD dissertation, is going up for auction…
Dazzling oak leaf prints merge science and nature
Everything in the forest is the forest Clare Hewitt An average mature oak tree grows hundreds of thousands of leaves…
Hidden layer beneath Italy’s Campi Flegrei caldera may explain why it’s so restless
A weak layer of crust deep below the floor of Italy’s Campi Flegrei causes the caldera to undergo periods of…
We may have discovered the first-ever stars powered by dark matter
A strange type of star could be powered by dark matter Artsiom P/Shutterstock Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet…
What Is the Analemma? | Scientific American
We’re all familiar with the sun’s daily motion in the sky. It rises in the east, gets higher in the…
A cup of chickpeas a day lowers cholesterol
Adding a cup of chickpeas or black beans to people’s daily diets could improve health by lowering cholesterol and inflammation,…