Al Gore was challenged on climate science Tuesday night when the mayor of Tangier Island, a community threatened by coastal erosion, told the environmentalist film producer he hadn’t seen the sea level change since he began his first career as a commercial crabber in 1970.
When a black hole and a neutron star collide, it might shower outer space with precious metals like gold and platinum while spewing out radioactive elements.
In an effort to stop a species of killer fish from infiltrating the Great Lakes, Michigan’s governor on Tuesday launched the “Invasive Carp Challenge,” the state’s latest response to the aggressive invaders.
Cue the greenage! It’s midsummer, which means daily afternoon thunderstorms that fill the sky with dark clouds, heavy rain, and scenes like this one out of Pennsylvania. While we may be out of the primary severe season that typically lasts from April through June, Mother Nature continues to prove you don’t need a severe or supercell thunderstorm to produce impressive views and storm structure.
British disease experts have suggested to do away with the “incorrect” advice to always finish a course of antibiotics, saying the approach was fuelling the spread of drug resistance.
Humanity’s farthest and longest-lived spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, achieve 40 years of operation and exploration this August and September. Despite their vast distance, they continue to communicate with NASA daily, still probing the final frontier.
Observations conducted with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have uncovered a young stellar cluster designated NGC 3293. The data provided by the spacecraft reveal insights about its stellar population. The findings were presented July 27 in a paper published on arXiv.org.
German physicists: “CO2 plays only minor role for global climate”
In a just published study in The Open Atmospheric Science Journal here, German scientists Horst-Joachim Lüdecke andCarl-Otto Weiss have used a large number of temperature proxies worldwide to construct a global temperature mean over the last 2000 years, dubbed G7, in order to find out more about the sun’s role on climate change.