Credit: Pixabay / CC0 Public Domain A new study has highlighted the crucial role that sea ice in the Southern Ocean played in controlling atmospheric carbon dioxide levels during times of past climate change, and could provide a critical resource for developing future models of change. climate. For the study, …
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For many, quarantining is starving. “If I can’t work, I can’t eat, it’s as simple and straightforward as that,” said Mario Muñoz Cruz, a shoe shine in Mexico City. “If doctors and experts tell me to stay home, I ask them, ‘What do I eat then?’ “ Although the virus …
Read More »Small worlds with lava oceans could have given us meteorites
“Burning rain drops”. This is how Henry Clifton Sorby, a 19th century British mineralogist, described the small spheres called chondrules found within meteorites. Chondrules are such dominant characteristics of these meteorites that they are called chondrites, and they account for 86 percent of the meteorites found on Earth. Its origin, …
Read More »Non-binary astronomers need better support from their field, study finds
Gender equality in astronomy does not end with the male / female gender binary. In A study Led by non-binary astrophysics Kaitlin Rasmussen, the researchers looked at gender equity in astronomy and what practices might address the remaining outstanding issues or have a negative impact on researchers who do not …
Read More »Summer solstice: today the sun rose in the north, and it is at the equinox | Science | News
The Sun is back in the spotlight after the weekend’s solar eclipse. The spectacular event, combined with the summer solstice, saw the United Kingdom see its longest day of the year, and now Express.co.uk readers say they have seen strange things in the sky. In fact, a confused reader told …
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