Earth continues to break global heat records

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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

The flow of ground jets helps create cloud seeds

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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

Physicists measured the rotation of the Earth using quantum entanglement

Red squiggles representing photons are sent into a loop representing the optical fiber in an interferometer, which surrounds Earth on a starry backdrop

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

Record Coral Sea temperatures threaten the Great Barrier Reef

A photograph of bleached white coral in the Great Barrier Reef.

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

Zigzag walls can help buildings beat heat

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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? Most “radiant cooling” designs involve roofs designed to receive and then emit the sun’s energy in infrared wavelengths that … Read more