Earth’s most famous killer asteroid came from the outer reaches of the solar system, researchers report in the Aug. 16 Science. About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the sea just off Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, forming the Chicxulub crater. That powerful impact may have triggered a mass extinction event on Earth, killing off … Read more
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? Since the most recent El Niño ended in May, the tropical Pacific has resided in a neutral state – … Read more
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? In July 1945, the United States detonated the first plutonium bomb. That Trinity test launched decades of nuclear weapons … Read more
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? As in the previous film, twisters’ the protagonists want to help people affected by these very destructive forces of … Read more
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? It makes you wonder: How hot can the Earth get? Is there a theoretically higher average global temperature? Well, … Read more
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? Previously, scientists have thought that most of the formation of new particles occurs in regions of the atmosphere where … Read more
The rotation of the Earth has been measured many times – but never like this. At first, scientists used entangled quantum particles called photons to detect the speed at which the globe spins. The achievement is a step toward investigating one of physics’ greatest mysteries: how the tiny world of quantum physics interacts with gravity. … Read more
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? In the midst of all this heat, it’s important to remember that the thermometer doesn’t always tell how hot … Read more
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef faces critical risk from successive periods of extreme ocean heat. Ocean heat in the Coral Sea is at its highest level in four centuries, scientists report on August 8. Nature. The researchers drilled into coral skeletons from in and around the region and analyzed the chemical composition of those samples to … Read more
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? But how to live with the heat that is already here? Readers have been asking us a bunch of … Read more