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May 24, 2024
In message to Russia, Chilean lawmakers meet in Antarctica to underline territorial claims. Defense officials from Chile convened a meeting at the bottom of the planet on Thursday in a bid to bolster their territorial claims in Antarctica as tensions escalate over Russia's maneuvers in the polar region.
Lawmakers from Chile's parliamentary defense committee flew to a desolate air base for a meeting billed as an assertion of national sovereignty.
May 23, 2024
Alaska's rusting waters: Pristine rivers and streams turning orange. Dozens of Alaska's most remote streams and rivers are turning from a crystal clear blue into a cloudy orange, and the staining could be the result of minerals exposed by thawing permafrost, finds new research in Communications Earth & Environment.
May 22, 2024
Did Earth's multicellular life depend on plate tectonics? How did complex life emerge and evolve on the Earth and what does this mean for finding life beyond Earth?
May 21, 2024
An approach has been developed to simplify the extraction of heavy and viscous oil. Russian researchers have found that the viscosity of heavy crude oil can be reduced by 58% if it is treated with a combination of water vapor and salts of acetic acid and transition metals. This makes it possible to increase the efficiency of production of such grades of hydrocarbons by 19%, the press service of the Russian Science Foundation reported on Monday.
May 5, 2024
Unraveling life's origin: Five key breakthroughs from the past five years. There is still so much we don't understand about the origin of life on Earth.
The definition of life itself is a source of debate among scientists, but most researchers agree on the fundamental ingredients of a living cell. Water, energy, and a few essential elements are the prerequisites for cells to emerge. However, the exact details of how this happens remain a mystery.
April 9, 2024
Russian geologists were offered to change their homeland. The celebration of Geologist's Day turned out to be unconventional (it was celebrated on April 7) for a number of Russian scientists from this field. It was marked by their refusal to go to the International Geological Congress (IGC) in South Korea under a neutral flag.
April 4, 2024
Demand for critical minerals puts African great apes at risk. One-third of Africa’s great ape population faces risks related to mining. A recent study led by researchers from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the non-profit conservation organization Re:wild shows that the threat of mining to the great ape population in Africa has been greatly underestimated. Their results have been published in Science Advances.
April 3, 2024
A new White House policy instructs NASA to develop a strategy for a new time standard for use on cislunar missions to provide improved navigation and related services on and around the moon. The Policy on Celestial Time Standardization in Support of the National Cislunar Science and Technology Strategy, released by the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy April 2, directs NASA to develop a strategy by the end of 20
March 25, 2024
Russia has sent a demarche to the United States over its decision to unilaterally extend its continental shelf, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
March 24, 2023
No 'human era' in Earth's geological history, scientists say. A top panel of geologists has decided not to grant the 'human age' its own distinct place in Earth's geological timeline after disagreeing over when exactly our era might have begun.
After 15 years of deliberation, a team of scientists made the case that humankind has so fundamentally altered the natural world that a new phase of Earth's existence—a new epoch—has already begun.