Arctic sea ice is rapidly diminishing due to global warming, and scientists have found that sea…
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Czech trainers teach dogs to sniff out COVID
In a dog training centre built inside a shipping container located in a Czech mountain village,…
Chileans receive mistaken tsunami warning following Antarctic quake
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck Saturday off the coast of Antarctica triggered a tsunami warning but…
Endangered Siamese crocodile in rare sighting at Thai national park
The critically endangered Siamese crocodile has been spotted for only the second time in a decade…
U of Louisiana-Lafayette mini-satellite zipping around Earth
A cubical satellite small enough to sit on the palm of your hand is zipping around…
New technique builds super-hard metals from nanoparticles
Metallurgists have all kinds of ways to make a chunk of metal harder. They can bend…
Wet and wild: There's lots of water in the world's most explosive volcano
There isn’t much in Kamchatka, a remote peninsula in northeastern Russia just across the Bering Sea…
How did forelimb function change as vertebrates acquired limbs and moved onto land?
When tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) began to move from water to land roughly 390 million years ago…
Climate and carbon cycle trends of the past 50 million years reconciled
Predictions of future climate change require a clear and nuanced understanding of Earth’s past climate. In…
Study examines how clean air act affects municipal bond market
Research has studied the effects of climate risk on financial markets, but few studies have addressed…