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A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has identified four previously unknown primordial open cluster (OC) groups in the Milky Way. Open clusters, loose assemblies of stars born from the same giant molecular cloud (GMC), are typically...
Forests in the Peruvian Amazon aren't growing back after gold mining—not just because the soil is damaged by toxic metals, but because the land has been depleted of its water. A common mining method known as...

Using an oil industry framework to map space resources

Cracking the chicken-and-egg problem of utilizing resources in space has been a difficult challenge for over half a century. Getting enough infrastructure built up...

Initiative to map the Great Lakes from coast to coast, surface to floor

We know less about the bottom of the Great Lakes than we do about the surface of Mars, according to Jennifer Boehme. The oceanographer is...

A new map shows all above-ground biomass in the Brazilian Amazon

Publication of a new map showing all the above-ground biomass in the Brazilian Amazon is good news in the context of the severe crisis...

A new map points at the impacts of rare earth elements

A map created by the Debt Observatory in Globalization in collaboration with the EJAtlas of Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat...

Trilobites rise from the ashes to reveal ancient map

Ten newly discovered species of trilobites, hidden for 490 million years in a little-studied part of Thailand, could be the missing pieces in an...

Helicopters could map the magnetic fields on Mars

A recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal examines how helicopters equipped with a magnetometer could be used to conduct magnetic field investigations...

Scientists can now map lightning in 3D

Studying lightning is as hard as you might expect. One promising technique to study the ephemeral surges is to measure the radio waves generated by...

NASA scientists map global salt marsh losses and their carbon impact

According to a new NASA-led study, the world has lost 561 square miles (1,453 square kilometers) of salt marshes over the past 20 years....

New map shows where fracking-induced earthquakes could hit in Canada

Scientists from the University of Waterloo have developed a map showing which regions and population centers of Western Canada are likely to experience earthquakes...

Scientists map sulfur residue on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa

A Southwest Research Institute-led team used the Hubble Space Telescope to observe Jupiter's moon, Europa, at ultraviolet wavelengths, filling in a "gap" in the...

Milky Way’s secrets revealed by massive space probe map

The Gaia space probe unveiled its latest discoveries on Monday in its quest to map the Milky Way in unprecedented detail, surveying nearly two...

New map shows seabed of the Southern Ocean in unprecedented detail

The features of the ocean floor help determine how water masses and ocean currents move and how they affect our climate. Biodiversity is also...

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