(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...

The direct air capture industry has ambitious plans to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but it’s vying for limited ...

Researchers have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors (SNSPDs), originally designed for detecting ...

The Los Angeles wildfires of January 2025 highlight a critical vulnerability in disaster response: power failure. With insured losses potentially reaching ...

A University of Hawaii at Mānoa study on the freezing of water droplets suspended in air sheds light on a key process in ...

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Photosynthesis not only gives energy to these organisms but also releases oxygen into the atmosphere, maintaining the perfect ... Meanwhile, independent observers note the need for more experiments. A ...

At sea level, air pressure is high. At the top of a mountain, air pressure is lower as there’s less atmosphere to push down. We don’t feel the pressure as it is exerted equally in all directions, but ...

Physical model experiments were designed with varying clay content to simulate debris flow motion, and micro accelerometers were employed to monitor and record vibration acceleration changes during ...

Researchers have pioneered an innovative method using helioseismology to measure the solar radiative opacity under extreme conditions. Their work, published in Nature Communications, not only reveals ...

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