science / science - 6 years ago
The rate the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting is possibly the highest in 8000 years. New work looking at layers of melt in ice cores, from the second biggest ice sheet in the world, has shown that in the past 20 years the rate of melting has increased by 250-575%. The resultant fresh water run off not...
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Scientists have identified an extraordinary specimen of fossilized blubber from a ‘fish-lizard’ that lived 180 million years ago, according to a new report in the journal Nature. The blubber, a layer of fat beneath the skin of modern marine mammals that helps them preserve heat, indicates that the...
science / science - 6 years ago
President Donald Trump has called special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation a "witch hunt" that's found no evidence of wrongdoing by his presidential campaign. But facts…
science / science - 6 years ago
And what Europe could learn from its success
science / science - 6 years ago
“Everything looks the same when it is destroyed in a fire,” one anthropologist said.
science / science - 6 years ago
One week after landing on the Martian plain of Elysium Planitia, NASA’s InSight lander is on a selfie-snapping spree — and the photos could be used as a guide for 2.4 million Earthlings and their descendants to look for their names. InSight’s selfies aren’t meant to be a vanity project for the lande...
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The iPad and Surface competitor has potential, but is held back by software
science / science - 6 years ago
TIME's former White House photographer Diana Walker on capturing the friendship between former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton
science / science - 6 years ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists think they've figured out the falling dominoes that led to Earth's largest mass extinction and worry that human-caused climate change puts the planet on a vaguely similar path.
science / science - 6 years ago
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Trump administration moved forward Thursday with plans to ease restrictions on oil and natural gas drilling, mining and other activities across millions of acres in the American West that were put in place to protect an imperiled bird species.
science / science - 6 years ago
DeepMind’s artificial intelligence programme AlphaZero is now showing signs of human-like intuition and creativity, in what developers have hailed as ‘turning point’ in history. The computer system amazed the world last year when it mastered the game of chess from scratch within just four hours, des...
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NEW YORK (AP) — More work by a prominent food researcher, including a study that took aim at the "Joy of Cooking," has been retracted because of problems with the data.
science / science - 6 years ago
Vaccines are unquestionably one of the greatest triumphs of modern medicine. Smallpox was the deadliest scourge in human history, responsible for 300 million to 500 million deaths in the twentieth century alone, when it was already on its way out. Thanks to vaccines, small...
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The population of the bushmaster snake population is dwindling. But researchers are studying whether their venom can stop the spread of cancer.
science / science - 6 years ago
By storing energy at scalding-hot temperatures, solar could be made more viable for everyone.