A major new study has been published – one that provides much more certainty about the extent of future warming we might expect. Along with many other international climate scientists, it was led by my colleague, climate scientist Steven Sherwood from the University of New South Wales in Australia. So, …
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For the first time, pressure more than 100 times found in the Earth’s core has been generated in a lab, setting a new record. Using the highest energy laser system in the world, physicists have subjected short solid hydrocarbon samples to pressures up to 450 megabars, which means 450 million …
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While bacteria are often associated with icky germs, they are actually so much more than that. They help us deepen things, feed trees nitrogen, play an enormous role in cycling the earth’s nutrients, and survive extreme extremes. Recently, we discovered some of these incredibly tough and thin packages of life …
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NASA’s perseverance Mars rover launched at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 30, featuring state-of-the-art technology including high definition video equipment and the first interplanetary helicopter. Many of the tools are designed as experimental steps towards human exploration of the red planet. Crucially, Perseverance is equipped with a device called the …
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