Why climate doomerism is wrong – Vox.com

We environmentalists spend our lives thinking about ways the world will end. There’s nowhere that I see doomer culture more vocal than on my home turf. With leading activists like Roger Hallam, co-founder of the popular climate protest movement Extinction…

‘I warned the FBI about this guy Osama bin Laden’: the people who predicted disasters, from the 2008 crash to Covid

‘Thinking I could have stopped it is something I have to deal with’ Ali Soufan on 9/11 In October 2000, Ali Soufan, a 29-year-old Lebanese-American FBI agent, was driving across Brooklyn Bridge when his pager beeped. More than 7,000 miles…

Webb discovers ices in a dark molecular cloud

NASA’s Webb discovers ices: The new space telescope has found a wide variety of frozen molecules in a dark molecular cloud 360 light-years away.

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Fascinating Images Show ‘Winter Wonderland’ on Mars Captured by Reconnaissance Orbiter

Fascinating images have been released that show a winter wonderland on Mars of cube-shaped snow, icy landscapes, and frost. It’s not any winter wonderland in which you’d like to be walking, as the snapshots of the landscape reveal temperatures of -123°C. The photos of Mars’ coldest season were taken by the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging […]

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Snapshots, Hotshots and Moonshots: Images of Climate Change in … – InsideClimate News

Climate change and an environment in peril were visible in many of 2022’s defining moments: record-smashing heat waves in Europe and South Asia, droughts pushing the fragile global food system to its limit and energy and food markets shaken by…

Comment System Survey Results

by Candice Rusch, Director of New Media at explore.org Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey and gave us feedback about what you want to see in a new comment system. In this blog post, I’ll lay out…

Rare space diamonds found in meteorites

Scientists have confirmed the existence of space diamonds known as lonsdaleite, and they said they were created when a dwarf planet and asteroid collided.

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Mysterious Maunder Minimum: Nearby star offers clues

We may learn more about the sun’s Maunder Minimum – a quiet period of low sunspots in the 1600s and 1700s – thanks to the help of a nearby sun-like star.

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CRISPR Gene-Editing Tool Redesigned to be 4,000 Times Less Likely to Target the Wrong Strand of DNA

One of the grand challenges with using CRISPR-based gene editing on humans is that the molecular machinery sometimes makes changes to the wrong section of a host’s genome, creating the possibility that an attempt to repair a genetic mutation in one spot in the genome could accidentally create a dangerous new mutation in another. But now, scientists […]

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A hot Jupiter exoplanet’s dark side revealed

Scientists have revealed the dark side of a hot Jupiter exoplanet for the first time, finding iron clouds, titanium rain and violent winds.

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