Research by a University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) graduate student Mojtaba Fakhraee and Associate Professor Sergei Katsev has pushed a major milestone in the evolution of the Earth’...
Over 200 countries just signed a United Nations resolution in Nairobi, Kenya to eliminate plastic waste in the world’s oceans. The resolution is an important step towards establishin...
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Most microplastics come from bigger items - many of them only used once. She said: You might think that out here in the middle of the ocean we would see pristine waters but the Atlan...
As a gigantic carbon sink, the ocean absorbs about a third of the carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the atmosphere by human activities. Ocean acidification affects ecosystems and im...
Now a new telescope is being unveiled that will be built at the SKA South Africa site in the Karoo. What will HIRAX do, and how? HIRAX has two main science goals: to study the evolut...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will use its infrared capabilities to study the ocean worlds of Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus, adding to observations previously...
Peak fishing activity, the study goes on to report, is more affected by cultural and political events such as holidays and closures than by changes in economic factors, or environmen...
Microplastic pollution is a major threat to filter-feeding animals such as manta rays, whale sharks and baleen whales, according to a new study published in the journal Trends in Eco...
But we have found another, overlooked, mechanism by which sea ice actively affects AMOC on multi-decadal time scales, said professor Alexey Fedorov, climate scientist at the Yale Dep...
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Solar Dynamics Observatory NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) scientists used their computer models to generate a view of the Sun’s magnetic field on August 1...
Every year, ca. Only once the land bridge between Greenland and Scotland disappeared did the first ocean passages emerge, connecting the Arctic with the North Atlantic and making wat...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain How Einstein’s equivalence principle extends to the quantum world has been puzzling physicists for decades, but a team including a University of Queensland...
How does microbial degradation of plastics work in the ocean? NIOZ marine scientist Helge Niemann was awarded a grant of 2 million euro by the European Research Council (ERC) to find...
The proteins involved in photosynthesis need to be ‘on’ when they have the sunlight they need to function, but need to idle, like the engine of a car at a traffic light, in the dark,...
Seal caught in plastic rope. Credit: Alex Mustard, courtesy of Marine Conservation Society Global funding to revolutionise waste management in the world’s worst polluting countries ...
Recently, scientists pushed ALMA to its limits, harnessing the array’s highest-frequency (shortest wavelength) capabilities, which peer into a part of the electromagnetic spectrum th...
Opinion poll of European citizens reveals that most are relatively well informed but many believe scenarios that may happen by 2100 have already occurred, calling for an improvement ...
Acidifying Water Earth’s oceans absorb about 40% of all the carbon dioxide (CO2) that humans emit into the atmosphere. Wildlife Danger It is likely, according to this study, that f...
2017 was the warmest year on record for the global ocean according to an updated ocean analysis from Institute of Atmospheric Physics/Chinese Academy of Science (IAP/CAS). The oceans...
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What is a lunar eclipse? What is a solar eclipse? This short video explains the difference between these regularly occurring events that can be observed from Earth. Remember: never l...
Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system will come a giant leap nearer completion on Tuesday 12 December, as four more Galileo satellites are launched into orbit by Ariane 5. Lif...
Enabling & Support The size of a cereal box: ESA’s first satellite of 2018 02/02/2018 7634 views 87 likes ESA’s first mission of the year was launched today: GomX-4B is the Agen...
The team visited ESA’s Test Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands – normally employed for satellite testing – to see how their electric motor, battery, sensors and brakes performed wh...