Japan’s 600-year-old Daisugi technique offers a unique way to produce timber without cutting down entire trees…
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Researchers mapped 5,600km of Canada’s coast using 170 years of records; kelp persistence reached 88% in cold waters but fell to 52% in warmer sheltered areas
Centennial persistence of kelp forests on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, Canada Researchers have reconstructed…
Antarctica averages minus 55°C at Vostok Station, yet a Lake Ontario-sized body of water remains liquid beneath four kilometres of ice for fifteen million years |
Antarctica is the coldest continent on Earth, featuring a deadly combination of extreme temperatures, high elevation…
Can India replace a satellite in days? Vikram-1 opens a bigger space question
For the first time, an Indian private company has demonstrated the ability to develop and operate…
China is building a ‘Mach 26 asteroid hammer’ to strike space rocks before they hit Earth |
Image Credit: Shutterstock The Earth revolves in a cosmic system which is surrounded by billions of…
Moon is drifting away from Earth at 3.8 centimetres a year. What will happen to the planet as it goes further? |
Over the next several hundred million years, Earth could face numerous unexpected consequences, all due to…
A planet 48 light-years away has 3 key ingredients scientists seek: Rock, an atmosphere and the right temperature, does it have life?
This might be the closest humans have come to finding another planet that can support life.…
Earth: Earth has regulated its climate for 60 million years through a hidden ocean feedback; the key was sea level and one essential nutrient
Earth’s natural system keep its climate from being too hot or too cold. (Representational photo_ Earth…
Scientists thought this ancient fish had been extinct for 66 million years, until it suddenly appeared in a fishing net in South Africa |
For decades, the coelacanth existed in scientific literature as a creature of the distant past. Fossils…
Scientists drilled 1.3 km beneath the Atlantic and found superheated water that may fuel one of Earth’s strangest sunless ecosystems
This Lost City carbonate tower was imaged during the National Science Foundation-supported project Return to the…