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Photo credit: Steve Jurvetson – CC BY 2.0 It is not surprising that the first prize, or the blue ribbon, for exceeding 2 ° C above the baseline, goes to the Arctic with permafrost covering 25% of the northern hemisphere. Recognition has been long overdue, as the Intergovernmental Panel on …

This illustration shows a high-altitude balloon rising to the upper atmosphere. When fully inflated, these balloons are 400 feet (150 meters) wide, or approximately the size of a soccer stadium, and reach an altitude of 130,000 feet (24.6 miles or 40 kilometers). Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Concept Image …

Credit: CC0 Public domain Most of the meteorites that have landed on Earth are fragments of planetesimals, the first protoplanetary bodies in the solar system. Scientists have thought that these primordial bodies either completely melted early in their history or were left as heaps of unmelted rubble. But a family …

When it comes to running on top of the computing world, the best 2-in-1 laptops lead the charge. Not only are they great laptops for typing, but they also double as touchscreen devices, allowing you to fold, convert, or even detach the screen to make them functional tablets. Some 2-in-1 …

Russian scientists are working to retrieve a well-preserved skeleton of a woolly mammoth from a lake in northern Siberia. July 24, 2020, 7:30 pm 2 min read Share on FacebookShare on TwitterEmail this article MOSCOW – Russian scientists are working to retrieve the well-preserved skeleton of a woolly mammoth, which …