Using Physics to Create a New, Sustainable Plastic

Using Physics to Create a New, Sustainable Plastic

Sophie van Lange, a Ph.D. candidate, has spent the past three years working toward a single goal: developing hard, sustainable plastic. The polymers we use…
Dehydrating the Stratosphere Could Help Alleviate Climate Change, Scientists Suggest

Dehydrating the Stratosphere Could Help Alleviate Climate Change, Scientists Suggest

Scientists have been debating whether purposefully drying the Earth’s stratosphere could be a solution to the climate catastrophe (other than, you know, not burning crazy…
Ancient connection between Mosses and Fungus

Ancient connection between Mosses and Fungus

Researchers have provided new light on the historic connection between mosses and fungi. They revealed that complex moss-fungus interactions were frequently dependent on a third…
Polar Bears are unlikely to Adapt to Extended Summers

Polar Bears are unlikely to Adapt to Extended Summers

Polar bears are more likely to starve the longer they are left on land, according to a recent study. During three summer weeks, scientists closely…
Reforestation initiatives could Endanger Large Areas of Tropical Grasslands

Reforestation initiatives could Endanger Large Areas of Tropical Grasslands

While reforestation projects are often effective in combatting climate change and restoring biodiversity, they can also endanger particular habitats, such as tropical grasslands. A new…
New Evidence of an Autonomous Written Language on Easter Island before European Invasion

New Evidence of an Autonomous Written Language on Easter Island before European Invasion

A team of philologists, chemists, environmental physicists, and engineers from various European institutions discovered evidence of an undeciphered script on wooden tablets constructed on Easter…
A Record-Breaking Number of Hoodoos Can be Found at Bryce Canyon

A Record-Breaking Number of Hoodoos Can be Found at Bryce Canyon

The Grand Staircase is a 160-kilometer (100-mile) stretch of sedimentary rock that was first proposed by geologist Clarence Dutton in the 1870s. Dutton envisioned it…
Traces of Stone Age Hunters and Gatherers Discovered in the Baltic Sea

Traces of Stone Age Hunters and Gatherers Discovered in the Baltic Sea

In the autumn of 2021, geologists uncovered an odd row of stones nearly 1 kilometer long at the bottom of Mecklenburg Bay. The site is…
Scientists Reveal How The Greenland Ice Sheet Has Decreased

Scientists Reveal How The Greenland Ice Sheet Has Decreased

According to a study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, the Greenland Ice Sheet lost 5,091 square kilometers of area between 1985 and 2022.…
Carbon Sequestration

Carbon Sequestration

Carbon sequestration is the long-term storing of carbon dioxide (CO2) or other forms of carbon in order to minimize or delay global warming and climate…
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