Category: 7. Science

New simulations show that the world’s strongest ocean current didn’t start flowing overnight – several major factors needed to align before it could begin exerting its powerful influence on Earth’s climate.

Five times stronger than the Gulf…

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As ⁠NASA’s record-breaking Artemis mission bolsters the U.S. path back to the moon, China’s bid to land astronauts there by 2030 is taking…

A new study has found that a common tree disease can turn some dry northern forests from methane sinks into methane sources.

The finding suggests that damage hidden inside living trunks may be quietly changing how much warming a forest helps…

The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month shows Tau 042021 (left) and Oph 163131 (right), two protoplanetary disks located about 450 and 480 light-years from Earth in the constellations Taurus and Ophiuchus…

Researchers have captured the first X-ray image of a bubble around a young, Sun-like star called HD 61005, revealing hot gas extending far beyond the star itself.

That discovery turns a distant system into a direct look at the kind of shield that…

The closest planet to our Sun, Mercury, experiences extreme temperature variations. Since the planet has no atmosphere to speak of, it is in a constant cycle of where one side is extremely hot and the other extremely cold. On the…

Five billion tons of plastic already surrounds us—and growing.
This isn’t waste; it’s accumulation without end. The real breakthrough will be how we undo it.

By Futurist Thomas Frey

There is a number that should stop you…

NASA has unveiled a new historic view of our planet, releasing a photograph of Earth slipping below the lunar horizon more than 57 years after the iconic “Earthrise” image was captured by an Apollo 8…