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Ancient wildfires may have inspired one of humanity’s biggest inventions
3+ day, 34+ min ago (880+ words) the whole idea of pottery actually started. The research was conducted by Amos Frumkin from the Institute...
How we talk to kids about nature can change how much they care
3+ week, 2+ day ago (862+ words) better than emphasizing nature’s own worth. The research comes from a team led by Akinori Kitsuki, an associate...professor at Kyushu University’s Faculty of Arts and Science. It lands at an interesting moment. Environmental...these topics has gotten far less…...
The forces that trigger earthquakes
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1008+ words) usually decides the moment it finally breaks. Research on California seismicity shows that groundwater...
A massive dust storm erupts in West Africa as the seasons change
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (697+ words) A massive dust storm swept across West Africa in early September, sending a plume over Mali and eventually toward the Atlantic Ocean. Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory shows a massive cloud of dust sweeping across West…...
A volcano that erupted near Mayotte in 2018 brought something extraordinary to the surface: a material from Earth’s birth 4.4 billion years ago
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (1112+ words) onto pieces of its earliest history. The official research summary describes work conceived by Claudine Israel,...
An octopus’s arms contain more neurons than its central brain, and scientists have learned how they are organized
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1047+ words) Octopus arms have an axial nerve cord built in repeating segments, the first case of nervous system segmentation documented in any mollusk. An octopus feeling its way into a rock crevice is not waiting on orders from its brain. Most…...
Scientists discovered a hidden underground forest 2,000 feet deep in China, and it’s teeming with rare species never seen before
1+ week, 4+ day ago (773+ words) At the bottom of a vertical shaft in the karst mountains of Chongqing, a mature subtropical forest grows in permanent half-light, roughly 2,000 feet below the plateau. The… The clouded leopard has been recorded down there, which means wildlife is still…...
California’s famous alien landscape seen from space
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (654+ words) California’s Vasquez Rocks have stood in for alien worlds for decades. A NASA satellite image reveals the famous landscape from space. Southern California is home to a landscape so unusual that Hollywood has spent decades pretending it belongs on other…...
Psilocybin creates hidden order inside the brain’s apparent chaos
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (1019+ words) study was led by Devon Stoliker, a Turner Impact Research Fellow at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental...
El Niño is stronger now than at any point in the last thousand years
21+ hour, 19+ min ago (1028+ words) Drilled cores from Galápagos coral carry an ocean temperature record back to the year 1000, and recent decades break the pattern. When the tropical Pacific warms every few years, the weather turns strange thousands of miles away. Direct measurements of that…...