The ‘Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau’ Myth
‘The uplift of the Tibetan Plateau’ is invoked to explain various phenomena, from monsoon dynamics to biodiversity evolution and everything in between. It’s not accurate, finds a new…
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The Yeast All Around Us
With people confined to their homes, there is more interest in home-baked bread than ever before. And that means a lot of people are making friends with yeast for the first time. I am a professor of hospitality management and a former chef, and I…
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Boring Vs Explosions – a Tale of Two Kinds of Volcanoes
At an idyllic island in the Mediterranean Sea, ocean covers up the site of a vast volcanic explosion from 3200 years ago.
A few hundred kilometers north-west, three other islands still have their volcanic histories from a few million years ago…
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The ancient volcano that’s 81 miles from London
Britain is known for being geologically stable and tectonically quiet, the last volcanic eruption was around 60 million years ago when Britain was moving away from the tectonic boundaries and hotspots.
Throughout Britain, volcanism is evident…
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1 billion years of missing history may finally be answered
The rock strata is a definitive timeline that records the geological history of our planet, however, there is a mystery that has confounded geologists for over a century – 1 billion years are missing.
The geological anomaly, dubbed “the Great…
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Almost Half of World Heritage Sites Could Lose Glaciers by 2100
The study combines data from a global glacier inventory, a review of existing literature and computer modeling to analyze World Heritage glaciers.
Glaciers are set to disappear completely from almost half of World Heritage sites if…
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Oceans should have a place in climate ‘green new deal’ policies, scientists suggest
The world’s oceans play a critical role in climate regulation, mitigation and adaptation and should be integrated into comprehensive “green new deal” proposals being promoted by elected officials and agency policymakers, a group of ocean…
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Fossil fuel-free jet propulsion with air plasmas
Humans depend on fossil fuels as their primary energy source, especially in transportation. However, fossil fuels are both unsustainable and unsafe, serving as the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and leading to adverse respiratory…
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Arctic ‘shorefast’ sea ice threatened by climate change, study finds
For people who live in the Arctic, sea ice that forms along shorelines is a vital resource that connects isolated communities and provides access to hunting and fishing grounds.
A new study by Brown University researchers found that climate…
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To make an atom-sized machine, you need a quantum mechanic
Here’s a new chapter in the story of the miniaturisation of machines: researchers in a laboratory in Singapore have shown that a single atom can function as either an engine or a fridge. Such a device could be engineered into future computers…
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