Greenland has melted before, and as the climate warms, it will melt again — this time leading to what scientists warn could be 20 to 25 feet of sea-level rise. During one of the warm periods within the last 1.1 million years, the center, not just the edges, of Greenland’s massive ice sheet melted away, […]
Derren Fox/BAS A23a is vast. Its flat, table-like top stretches to the horizon Something remarkable has happened to A23a, the world’s biggest iceberg. For months now it has been spinning on the spot just north of Antarctica when really it should be racing along with Earth’s most powerful ocean current. Scientists say the frozen block, […]
The mummy of an ancient Egyptian woman with her mouth wide open in what looks like an anguished shriek may have died “screaming from agony,” researchers say. The unnamed woman mummy, discovered in a 1935 archeological expedition in Deir el-Bahari near Luxor, was kept in The Cairo Egyptian Museum and referred to as “Screaming Woman […]
Dutch scientists have unveiled the country’s first laboratory to research how autonomous miniature drones can mimic insects to accomplish tasks ranging from finding gas leaks in factories to search-and-rescue missions. Called the Swarming Lab, researchers at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) say they aim to put a “self-flying” swarm of 100 tiny drones […]
Kevin Church/BBC Rory Golden was on the Titan’s support ship when the submersible went missing A witness to the Titan submersible disaster has told BBC News about the fear and false hope felt by those on its support ship. Rory Golden was on the Oceangate expedition when contact with the sub and its five passengers […]
Emma J Long The scientists were able to pick out the perfectly preserved creature’s internal anatomy in different colours The internal anatomy of a prehistoric creature the size of a poppy seed has been revealed in “astonishing detail”. Researchers used powerful X-rays to scan the 520-million-year-old fossil. The results, published in the journal Nature, reveal […]
New Delhi — Scientists say Indian farmers’ eager uptake of a painkiller for their cattle in the 1990s has led to the inadvertent deaths of half of a million people and massive economic losses — not from any harm to the cattle, but from the loss of millions of vultures, scavengers that historically devoured animals’ remains […]
Moment Ariane-6 takes off for first mission Europe’s big new rocket, Ariane-6, has blasted off on its maiden flight. The vehicle set off from a launchpad in French Guiana at 16:00 local time (19:00 GMT) on a demonstration mission to put a clutch of satellites in orbit. Crews on the ground in Kourou applauded as […]
Getty Images We’re in the midst of a Moon rush. A growing number of countries and companies have the lunar surface in their sights in a race for resources and space dominance. So are we ready for this new era of lunar exploration? This week, images were beamed back to Earth of China’s flag unfurled […]
Business & FinanceEnvironment 05 March 2024, 2:23 pm 1 minute Reuters exclusively reported that a United Nations-backed alliance of banks is proposing its members disclose more information on their commitments to tackle climate change without requiring them to coordinate action, in a compromise it hopes will prevent departures. Market Impact The Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), […]