Written by Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
The Afro-Asian monsoon is a belt-like system that extends from North Africa via South Asia to East Asia. Anomalies relating to its intensity and position can trigger widespread droughts and floods in different regions simultaneously. Therefore, investigating its interdecadal variability is of great scientific and societal importance.
Written by Kenneth Chang
An Arizona company, World View Enterprises, plans to send tourists on balloons into the stratosphere, high enough to see the curves of Earth and the blackness of space.
Written by Himanshu Goenka
As the universe expanded after the Big Bang, galaxies spread out too, and many of them grouped together in gigantic clusters that can be thought of as “urban centers” of the cosmos.
Written by Dr. Roy Spencer
Now that the idea of a global warming Red Team approach to help determine what our energy policy should be is gaining traction, it is important that we understand what that means to some of us who have been advocating it for over 10 years — and also what it doesn’t mean.
Written by Andrew Follett
Scientists now say that it’s more likely than not a that an extraterrestrial civilization generated a signal from deep space detected in 1977.
Written by Martin Hertzberg
At last, the New York Times publishes a letter from an informed climate change skeptic. Alexander McKay’s letter (6/11/17) was a breath of fresh air in the otherwise stale regurgitations of environmental propagandists that usually appear in the Times.
Written by James Delingpole
A global warming research study in Canada has been cancelled because of “unprecedented” thick summer ice.
Naturally, the scientist in charge has blamed it on ‘climate change.’
Written by Ron Clutz
The Closing of the Scientific Mind is a plea for scientists to celebrate and enhance humanity rather than belittle human life. Author David Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale. His book Subjectivism: The Mind from Inside will be published by Norton later this year. Excerpts below.
Written by Hannah Osborne
Scientists have discovered a population of “super corals” that appear to have become resistant to extreme environmental conditions—being able to survive and thrive in hot, acidic and low-oxygen waters.
Written by John Kemp
The probability of El Nino, a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific, developing this year has been downgraded by U.S. government forecasters as sea surface temperatures and wind speeds in the area remain close to their long-term averages.
Written by Cale Guthrie Weissman
Inside the New York Times‘ towering building in Midtown Manhattan, just off Times Square, sit 14 journalists whose primary role is to read and to click.
Written by Leah Crane
A long-dormant plan for a space station built in space from recycled parts may be getting new legs. NASA has signed an estimated $10 million contract to study the possibility of turning used rocket stages into functioning labs with support for a crew.
Written by Phys.org
Machine learning, the field that’s driving a revolution in artificial intelligence, has cemented its role in modern technology. Its tools and techniques have led to rapid improvements in everything from self-driving cars and speech recognition to the digital mastery of an ancient board game.
Written by Andrew Follett
New data from the Curiosity rover suggests Mars could have been habitable in the distant past.
Written by Tony Heller
Climate experts continue to insist that Arctic sea ice is at a record low and declining.
Written by Sarah Kaplan
Albert Einstein himself believed it couldn’t be done.
A few decades after he published his theory of general relativity, a colleague asked the famous physicist whether the concept could be used to calculate the weight of a star.