Water occupies 70 percent of the earth’s surface and is crucial to life as we know it, but how it got here has been a long scientific debate. The puzzle was solved a step closer Thursday after a French team reported in the magazine Science they had identified which space …
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The oceans of the world have been transformed into a true sponge for our emissions, and new climate models suggest that we have passed them on immediately. Since the 1950s, the vast water bodies of our planet have absorbed about 93 percent of the energy in the climate system, and …
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Greenland’s major ice block saw a record net loss of 532 billion tonnes last year, raising red flags over accelerating sea level rise, according to findings released Thursday. That equates to an additional 3 million tons of water flowing into global oceans every day, like six Olympic-sized swimming pools every …
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The world could be training for an ‘information disaster’, as the pace of digital bit production continues to accelerate without signs of stopping, new research suggests. In a new study – one stuck in the more abstract aspects of theoretical physics, it must be said – researcher Melvin Vopson of …
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The need for sleep goes far beyond simply replenishing our energy levels every 12 hours. Our brains actually change states when we sleep to remove the toxic byproducts of neural activity during the day. Strangely enough, research on mice has revealed that the same process is beginning to occur in …
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