Russian Arctic warming leads to major ice loss
Glaciers and ice caps in two archipelagos in the Russian Arctic are losing enough meltwater to fill nearly five million Olympic-size swimming pools each...
COVID-19 lockdown causes 50% global reduction in human-linked Earth vibrations
The lack of human activity during lockdown caused human-linked vibrations in the Earth to drop by an average of 50% between March and May...
New Jurassic flying reptile reveals the oldest opposed thumb
A new 160-million-year-old arboreal pterosaur species, dubbed ‘Monkeydactyl’, has the oldest true opposed thumb - a novel structure previously not known in pterosaurs.
An international...
Billions of tonnes of ice lost from Antarctic Ice sheet
Scientists have calculated that the fastest changing Antarctic region - the Amundsen Sea Embayment - has lost more than 3,000 billion tonnes of ice over a 25-year period.
If...
Last year the warmest year on record without an El Niño
Provisional figures for global average near-surface temperatures confirm that last year, 2017, was the warmest year on record without the influence of warming from...
‘Campfires’ offer clue to solar heating mystery
Miniature solar flares nicknamed “campfires”, recently discovered near the surface of the Sun, are about 1,000 to 5,000 km tall and between 1-1.5 million...
Practice makes perfect-Worker robots that learn from mistakes
Practise makes perfect – it is an adage that has helped humans become highly dexterous, and now it is an approach that is being...
Unusual fossil reveals last meal of prehistoric pollinator
The animal’s remains were unearthed by researchers at the University of Bristol and the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy...
A new ring system discovered in our Solar System
Scientists have discovered a new ring system around a dwarf planet on the edge of the Solar System. The ring system orbits much further...
Ice age discovery may reveal early migration route of first Americans
A group of researchers have discovered the retreat of an ancient ice sheet from the western coast of Canada occurred earlier than previously thought.
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