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[ad_1] Research from Curtin University has shed new light on when one of the largest mass extinction events on Earth occurred, which gives new meaning to what killed Triassic life and allowed for the ecological expansion of dinosaurs in the Jurassic period. The research, published in the prestigious PNAS journal, …

[ad_1] FP trendNovember 16, 2020 15:17:57 IST Scientists have now found that water vapor near the surface of the Red Planet is being sent higher into the atmosphere than was previously thought possible. Once there, it is destroyed by electrically charged gas particles or ions and is lost in space. …

[ad_1] Its mission is to understand the links between a planet’s chemistry and its environment by plotting approximately 1,000 known planets outside our Solar System, providing scientists with a complete picture of what exoplanets are made of, how they formed and how they formed. will evolve. The Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared …

[ad_1] Even if humanity stops emitting greenhouse gases tomorrow, the Earth will warm up for centuries to come and oceans will rise by meters, according to a controversial modeling study released Thursday. Natural factors of global warming – more heat-trapping clouds, permafrost melting and sea ice shrinkage – already set …

[ad_1] Credit:NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Many satellites perform very important and profitable tasks, but some may be deactivated with fuel still in the tank due to current methods of measuring the amount of fuel. More accurate fuel gauges could help ensure satellites stay operational longer and time in orbit is …

[ad_1] Rutgers University Hot, humid rivers of air can affect the entire continent and influence climate change A band of clouds in an atmospheric river extending from South America to the Antarctic Sea Ice Zone on September 16, 2017. Image: NASA Warm, humid rivers of air in Antarctica play a …

[ad_1] Over 1,000 kilograms of so-called interplanetary dust are thought to fall on Earth every day. This dust is essentially an untold number of small faint meteors, discarded remnants of asteroids and comets that pass close to Earth. Two ways to study faint meteors are radar and optical observations, each …

[ad_1] Who says you can’t get hotter with age? Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and other institutions have found that, on average, the temperature of galaxy clusters today is 4 million degrees Fahrenheit. This is 10 times hotter than 10 billion years ago and four times hotter than the Sun’s …

[ad_1] “At the age of 12-15 I was drawing; I was designing fusion devices. “ David Fischer recalls growing up in Vienna, Austria imagining the best way to cool the furnace used to hold the hot ion soup known as plasma in a melting device called a tokamak. With the …

[ad_1] An international team of climate scientists, including two from the University of Michigan, suggests that researchers using numerical models to predict future climate change should include simulations of past climates when evaluating the model’s performance. “We urge the climate modeling community to pay attention to the past and actively …