Tag: humans

Treasures beneath the ocean floor? Seawater plays role in gold formation

EARTH04/07/2024

Understanding how gold forms is crucial for knowing where to find it and how to extract it sustainably. McGill researchers have answered a long-standing question in geology that could lead to new ore discoveries. Researchers traveled to...

High-resolution land surface dataset provides Earth system modeling details

EARTH03/07/2024

Earth system models (ESMs) help us understand climate and environmental changes. With advances in computing power, ESMs can now be run at kilometer-scale (k-scale) resolutions, capturing very fine details to better predict extreme weather and understand...

Humans are still hunting for aliens: Here’s how astronomers are looking for life beyond Earth

ASTRONOMY06/03/2023

We have long been fascinated with the idea of alien life. The earliest written record presenting the idea of "aliens" is seen in the...

Where are the best places to land humans on Mars?

MARS17/12/2022

Want to go to Mars? Great, now all you need to do is plan a mission. Figure out where to land, what to bring,...

Dinosaurs survived when CO2 was extremely high. Why can’t humans?

PALEONTOLOGY21/09/2022

How did plants and animals survive around 200 million years ago when the carbon dioxide concentration went up to 6,000 parts per million? Paul...

Study: Humans responsible for over 90% of world’s oil slicks

ENVIRONMENT16/06/2022

A team of U.S. and Chinese scientists mapping oil pollution across the Earth's oceans has found that more than 90% of chronic oil slicks...

Neanderthals of the North reveal tolerance of humans to changing environmental conditions

ENVIRONMENT30/04/2022

A multidisciplinary research team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Leuphana University Lüneburg, the...