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Astronomers discover micronovae, a new kind of stellar explosion

ASTRONOMY
A team of astronomers, with the help of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), have observed a new type of stellar...

Study predicts climate change accelerates ocean currents

Uncategorized
An international team led by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego used computer model simulations to find that climate change...

African dust crosses the Atlantic

EARTH
A beautiful sunset over the Atlantic off the Florida coast, or an orangey glow in the Texas sky at dusk may be caused by...

Iceland volcano eruption in 1783-84 did not spawn extreme heat wave

VOLCANOES
An enormous volcanic eruption on Iceland in 1783-84 did not cause an extreme summer heat wave in Europe. But, as Benjamin Franklin speculated, the...

Perseverance rover arrives at ancient river delta for new science campaign

ASTRONOMY
After collecting eight rock-core samples from its first science campaign and completing a record-breaking, 31-Martian-day (or sol) dash across about 3 miles (5 kilometers)...

A new explanation for why Jupiter’s moon has splendid dunes

ASTRONOMY
Scientists have long wondered how Jupiter's innermost moon, Io, has meandering ridges as grand as any that can be seen in movies like "Dune."...

Biden restores environmental safeguards dropped by Trump

ENVIRONMENT
The administration of President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced it would restore safeguards in a cornerstone environmental law weakened under Donald Trump—including a duty...

Record low Antarctic sea ice extent could signal shift

OCEANOGRAPHY
Sea ice around Antarctica shrank to the smallest extent on record in February, five years after the previous record low, researchers said Tuesday, suggesting...

Olympic National Park’s glaciers could be gone by 2070

EARTH
By 2070, the glaciers on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State will have largely disappeared, according to a new study. The loss will alter...

Signs of past California ‘mega-quakes’ show danger of the big one on San Andreas fault

EARTHQUAKES
As Interstate 10 snakes through the mountains and toward the golf courses, housing tracts and resorts of the Coachella Valley, it crosses the dusty...

Connecting health, pollution and fairness: That’s environmental justice

ENVIRONMENT
In the beginning, the idea of environmental justice didn't have a name. It didn't have much support, either. A few years after the first Earth...

NASA is having a tough time testing the SLS

ASTRONOMY
NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) has been having some problems getting tested since it rolled out onto launch pad 39B last month. These tests,...
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