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A team of paleontologists from Italy and Spain have compared the only well-preserved skull of Crocodylus checchiai, an extinct species of crocodile that lived in what is now Libya about 7 million years ago (Miocene epoch), to those of the four species of living crocodiles in the Americas, and discovered …

In a surprising discovery, physicists have detected a rare spooky particle that was previously thought to only occur within the sun, but now, also under a mountain in Italy. The rare particles are called neutrinos produced by CNO. These are subatomic particles produced by the sun’s carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle, one of …

Brittlebush Credit: Avery Driscoll Death Valley doesn’t seem like the most ideal place to resist rising temperatures amid changing weather. But for the desert plants that live there, it is their home, and they face the option of adapting or dying. Research from the University of Utah shows that one …

Credit: CC0 Public domain A new study uses satellite data over the southern hemisphere to understand the global composition of clouds during the industrial revolution. This research addresses one of the biggest uncertainties in current climate models: the long-term effect of small atmospheric particles on climate change. Climate models currently …

The world’s largest COVID-19 vaccine study began Monday with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers who helped test vaccines created by the US government, one of several candidates in the final stretch of the world race. of vaccines. There is still no guarantee that the experimental vaccine, developed by the …