Category: 7. Science

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  • Earth’s heat imbalance is rising – and air pollution isn’t the cause

    Earth’s heat imbalance is rising – and air pollution isn’t the cause

    Earth keeps getting warmer because more energy from sunlight stays trapped in the climate system. Scientists refer to this as Earth’s energy imbalance. When incoming energy becomes greater than outgoing energy, heat builds up in oceans, land,…

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  • Part of Antarctica’s ice sheet collapsed 9,000 years ago under similar climate conditions as today

    Part of Antarctica’s ice sheet collapsed 9,000 years ago under similar climate conditions as today

    About 9,000 years ago, part of Antarctica’s eastern ice sheet collapsed astonishingly fast, driven by warmer ocean water. The study focuses on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, a vast body of land ice in East Antarctica.

    Altogether, Antarctica’s…

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  • Spinosaurus relative longer than a pickup truck stalked Thailand’s rivers 125 million years ago

    Spinosaurus relative longer than a pickup truck stalked Thailand’s rivers 125 million years ago

    Two young spinosaurids hunt a juvenile Phuwiangosaurus in Cretaceous Thailand. A large adult spinosaurid (not the newly unveiled Sam Ran spinosaurid) rests in the background beside a body of water, while two feathered Kinnareemimus are…

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  • At 15, Belgian researcher earns a PhD in quantum physics with ambitious long-term goals

    At 15, Belgian researcher earns a PhD in quantum physics with ambitious long-term goals

    At 15 years old, Belgian researcher Laurent Simons earned a PhD in quantum physics from the University of Antwerp. He says the degree is a means to a larger goal: building longer, healthier lives by enhancing human biology.

    Simons research…

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  • Social behavior in bees is controlled by a ‘begging gene’

    Social behavior in bees is controlled by a ‘begging gene’

    A gene called fruitless controls about 1,800 brain cells that allow male honeybees to beg worker bees for food inside the hive, according to new research.

    The study comes from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) in Germany, and the results…

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  • My Mom’s Swedish Death Cleaning Made Me See Life Differently

    My Mom’s Swedish Death Cleaning Made Me See Life Differently

    Losing a parent is difficult enough. But on top of planning a funeral and taking care of final expenses, surviving family members have to handle the belongings left behind, a Herculean task that leaves little space…

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  • Team cracks mystery of how plants ‘do the twist’

    Team cracks mystery of how plants ‘do the twist’