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Medically evacuating an astronaut from space is difficult and expensive, and a new model predicts that one in three long-duration moon missions may require it Source link...
Forest loss is thought to have played a part in record low rainfall across South America this year, in a sign that environmental destruction is accelerating climate collapse Source link...
September 20, 20242 min readMoral Judgments May Shift with the SeasonsCertain values carry more weight in spring and autumn than in summer and winterBy Anvita Patwardhan Jasmin Merdan/Getty ImagesAs leaves fall, snow sweeps in or flowers blossom, humans change in...
The melting of Thwaites glacier is expected to accelerateInternational Thwaites Glacier Collaboration A six-year investigation into the vast Thwaites glacier in Antarctica has concluded with a grim outlook on its future. Often dubbed the “doomsday glacier”, this huge mass of...
The Terminator (voiced by Timothy Olyphant) has only a few lines in this anime seriesNetflix Terminator ZeroMattson TomlinNetflix How many times can Judgment Day arrive and/or be averted before it loses all meaning? That question has plagued every instalment in the Terminator...
The International Space Station has its own distinctive microbiomeDima Zel/Shutterstock Bacteria on board the International Space Station (ISS) have evolved new traits in order to survive in low Earth orbit, and some show signs of increased virulence. Microbes from Earth...
Seawater could be a source of clean hydrogen fuelTamara Kulikova / Alamy For the first time, electrodes that can make hydrogen from seawater without generating corrosive and toxic chlorine gas will be produced at commercial scales. “Traditional electrolysis has only...
Huanan seafood market in Wuhan, China, on 31 December 2019Imaginechina Limited/Alamy An analysis of genetic samples taken from the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan, China, has identified a shortlist of wild animals being sold there that were the most likely...
Illustration of pterosaurs over a Cretaceous landscape, in a time when Earth was warmer than todayMasPix / Alamy During the past 500 million years – the time when animals and land plants evolved – the average surface temperature of the...
