'Threat from below': Stuck glider accidentally finds what has been killing Antarctica for the past 45 years
An accidental discovery by a glider under Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf reveals decades of hidden ocean warming, accelerating ...
New Atlas25m
New heat shield to protect next-gen reusable spacecraft during reentry
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Sierra Space Corporation have developed a new heat shield based on venerable 1980s Space ...
Astronomy30m
The Sky This Week from November 15 to 22: 2024’s last Super Moon occults the Pleiades
The Full Super Moon occults the Pleiades, the ice giant Uranus reaches opposition, and the Leonid meteor shower peaks in the ...
A quarter of the world’s people observe Ramadan. What’s it for and what are the rules?
Most of the world’s 1.9 billion Muslims – roughly a quarter of the Earth’s people – observe the rites of Ramadan annually, ...
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Plans to cool the Earth by blocking sunlight are gaining momentum, but critical voices risk being excluded
Solar geoengineering refers to proposals to reduce global warming by reflecting a portion of sunlight back into space before it reaches the Earth's surface. In its best-known form, this means using ...