Search results
Interstellar Cloud May Have Triggered Last Ice Age
ExtremeTech· 29 minutes agoDuring the Pleistocene Epoch, often called the Ice Age, Earth was subject to numerous periods of glacial expansion. Scientists have proposed numerous mechanisms for the ice ...
Why Earth might have 25-hour days in the future
Houston Chronicle· 1 hour agoYou might think the Moon is Earth's most constant companion, always appearing in the night sky. Scientists have discovered that our only natural...
Scientists study artificial meteor in NASA's asteroid sample mission
United Press International via Yahoo News· 2 days agoOver 80 researchers from more than a dozen institutions recently worked together to study such an...
A Letter to My Son About the Earth He'll Inherit
Time via AOL· 17 hours agoFor example, there is an old story that most Americans either don’t know that Earth is overheating or don’t care. This story was so sticky that if I’d...
Will the La Niña cycle cool down Earth's record-breaking heat streak? Not so fast, experts caution
Salon via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoIn Australia the risk of heavy rains goes up also, later." A 2023 study published in the journal...
A Big Whack That Made the Moon May Have Also Created Continents That Move
New York Times· 2 hours agoComputer simulations suggest that a collision with another planetary object early in Earth’s history...
Humans emerged thanks to Earth colliding with cold clouds, study suggests
Daily Telegraph· 2 days agoEarth passed through a giant interstellar cloud two million years ago which cooled the planet and...
As Earth warms, California gets federal funding to train climate-ready workforce
LA Times via AOL· 1 hour agoA 2021 study on California's clean energy transition found that the investments needed to meet and...
NASA Funds Study of Proposals to Investigate Space Weather Systems
Morningstar· 15 hours agoWASHINGTON, June 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA has selected three proposals for concept studies of missions to investigate the complex system of space weather that surrounds our planet and how it's connected to Earth's atmosphere.
A missing link in the timeline of Earth's chemistry may have been found
Space via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoWhile an interesting idea, however, evidence for the transition from primitive...