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Environment
A twice as severe winter is about to hit much of the U.S. with snow, ice and biting cold.
People walk nearly half a mile from a grocery store to their homes as steam from underground vents rises behind them in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood on Tuesday, January 16, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File Meteorologists predict that strong snow and ice storms and subsequent bitter cold will soon hit two-thirds of the eastern United States as frigid air…
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Earth
Braving the cold: European polar research advances with new polar hub
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In 2025, the EU will establish a new Polar Research Institute based in Sweden, where scientists will drill deep into polar ice to study the history of Earth’s climate and determine the effects of climate change on this fragile ecosystem. We plan to help reduce this. German scientist Dr. Nicole Bibou is keenly aware of how…
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Other Sciences
Saturday’s quote: Cold dark matter takes a hit. A new paradigm in biology. those fracking earthquakes
This image shows a small portion of the field observed by NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for the Cosmic Evolution and Early Emission Science (CEERS) study. It’s full of galaxies. Some galaxies grew so large and so quickly that simulations seem unable to explain them. But new research has found that some of these early…
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Environment
Ocean eddies pour extreme heat and cold into the deep ocean, teeming with life.
The mesopelagic twilight zone is rich in life. Clockwise from the top: mesopelagic jellyfish, pit vipers, lanternfish, larvae, copepods, and squid. Credit: Wikimedia/Drazen et al. CC BY-NC-ND On land, heat waves and cold waves are well known. However, the deep ocean also experiences long periods of high and low temperatures. Marine heat waves and cold waves can seriously damage marine…
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