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Scientists Studying Earth's Trees Issue a Bleak Warning to Humanity
WEB1 day ago · From soaring coastal redwoods to dinosaur-era Wollemi pines and firs that make the perfect Christmas trees, even our most revered woody plants are in an awful lot of trouble.. But it turns out that losing some species won't just endanger local forests; it will threaten entire ecosystems, research shows.
Humanity Faces a Brutal Future as Scientists Warn of 2.7°C Warming
WEB1 day ago · You don't have to look far to see what climate change is doing to the planet. The word "unprecedented" is everywhere this year. We are seeing unprecedented rapidly intensifying tropical storms such as Hurricane Helene in the eastern United States and Super Typhoon Yagi in Vietnam. Unfortunately, we ...
Nanostructures Found in Deep Sea Vents Generate Energy …
WEB1 day ago · Hidden deep in the Pacific Ocean – almost 6,000 meters (19,685 feet) down into the Mariana Trench – are a group of hydrothermal vents, which could provide some vital clues as to how life got started on Earth. That's the conclusion of a new study led by a team from the Riken Scientific Research ...
Microbes Found Alive Sealed in Rock For 2 Billion Years
WEB2 days ago · The result of this clay packing was multifold: it provided a resource for the microbes to live on, with organic and inorganic materials that they could metabolize; and it effectively sealed the rock, both preventing the microbes from escaping, and preventing anything else from entering – including the drilling fluid.
Nearby Dwarf Planet Could Have a Crust That's 90% Water
WEBA dwarf planet thought to have some ice mixed in with its dirty surface may have a lot more cool than we ever expected. Ceres – the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter – could have a crust consisting of more than 90 percent water ice. If this is the case, the heavily cratered and scarred object could have a lot to teach us about ocean worlds, and what they can look ...
Scientists Detected Signs of a Hidden Structure Inside Earth's Core
WEBSep 28, 2024 · A lost chapter in our planet's history. The team used a search algorithm to trawl through and match thousands of models of the inner core with observed data across many decades about how long seismic waves take to travel through Earth, gathered by the International Seismological Centre.
After a 20-Year Search, Scientists Have Finally Found Earth's True ...
WEBLearn about the innermost core of Earth, a dense ball of iron at the very center of our planet, and how scientists have found it using seismic waves. The web page does not answer the query directly, but it provides information about the size, structure, and history of the innermost core.
Fusion Breakthrough: 6 Minutes of Plasma Sets New Reactor Record
WEBMay 7, 2024 · WEST, a donut-shaped fusion reactor in France, created a super-hot plasma for 6 minutes, a world record for a device like it. The experiment is part of the research for ITER, a larger fusion reactor that could produce clean, limitless energy.
Scientists Figured Out How And When Our Sun Will Die, And It's …
WEBSep 5, 2021 · The Sun will become a red giant in 5 billion years and engulf Earth, but then shrink to a white dwarf or a planetary nebula. Learn how astronomers used computer modeling to solve the mystery of bright planetary nebulae and …