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[ad_1] A new study has confirmed that artificially cooling the Earth through technologies that reduce incoming sunlight would not be enough to prevent extreme warming for long periods of time, unless associated with cuts in greenhouse gases. The research uses modeling to examine what would happen if, hypothetically, greenhouse gases …

[ad_1] According to the new study, life’s building blocks such as amino acids may have formed in dark interstellar clouds long before the regions of gas and dust transformed into stars and planets. An international team of scientists, led by experts from Queen Mary University of London, mimicked the conditions …

[ad_1] HOLE FOR WOODS, Mass., November 16, 2020 / PRNewswire / – Intense tropical cyclones are expected to become more frequent as climate change raises temperatures in the Pacific Ocean. But not all areas will experience storms of the same magnitude. New research from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) …

[ad_1] There are tons of reasons not to rely on sun blocking to cool the planet. But a new paper presents perhaps the best so far: it may not work if we continue to let carbon emissions skyrocket. The findings, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of …

[ad_1] Mars underwent an early bombardment before settling into a prolonged calm, indicates a new meteorite record. Detlev van Ravenswaay / Science Source By Paul Voosen16 November 2020, 15:00 It was a tough fundraiser: Martin Bizzarro, a cosmochemist from the University of Copenhagen, needed around $ 500,000 to buy – …

[ad_1] Millions of years ago, in the warm Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California, tuskless walrus species lived in abundance. But in a new study, Cal State Fullerton paleontologists have identified three new walrus species discovered in Orange County, and one of the new species has “half-tusks” – …

[ad_1] During his last press briefing Matt Hancock made a series of huge announcements to the public. The health secretary discussed the increase in coronanvirus deaths, new vaccines and help for “long-time covid” sufferers. He also answered questions from the public about concerns about the blockade and what to expect …

[ad_1] SpaceX launches 4 astronauts into space | MashableMashable Well, look who hitchhiked for SpaceX’s Crew Dragon: Baby YodaPopular mechanics SpaceX just launched its first full NASA crew on the Space Station on a historic missionCNBC television SpaceX Crew Dragon: 10 breathtaking images and videos show the historic launchReverse Your …

[ad_1] Left: section of the cerebellum, with magnification factor 40x, obtained with electron microscopy (Dr. E. Zunarelli, University Hospital of Modena); right: section of a cosmological simulation, with an extension of 300 million light years on each side (Vazza et al. 2019 A&A). Credit: University of Bologna An astrophysicist from …

[ad_1] First introduced in wide use in the mid 1920sth century, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has since become an indispensable technique for examining materials down to their atoms, revealing molecular structure and other details without interfering with the material itself. “It is a widely used technique in chemical analysis, material …