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Can Nature’s Leading Indicators Presage Environmental Disaster?

Now, in a new study, scientists take a page from the social science handbook and use leading indicators of the environment to presage the potential collapse of…

Lunar Rock-Like Material May Someday House Moon Colonies

Initially designed to construct a dome, the building material is composed of a lunar rock-like material mixed with powdered aluminum that can be molded into…

Trapped water cause of regular tremors under Vancouver Island

The Cascadia megathrust fault, named for its massive but infrequent earthquakes, runs along the length of North America's western coast from northern Vancouver…

Temperature response in the Altai lags solar forcing

An ice core drilled at the Belukha glacier in the Siberian Altai by a Swiss-Russian research team under the leadership of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in…

Could Deep-Sea Microbes Teach Us About Alien Life?

Hovering in a tiny submarine 1.4 miles beneath the Pacific Ocean, a University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist felt as if he were in a time machine,…

Lifecycles of tropical cyclones predicted in global computer model

The model, called the Nonhydrostatic ICosahedral Atmospheric Model (NICAM), was developed for the supercomputer Earth Simulator at JAMSTEC. Given the…

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