Keeping warming below 1.5℃ is possible - but we can't rely on removing carbon from the atmosphere
Nov 09, 2016 19:31 pm UTC| Science Nature
This week international leaders are meeting in Marrakech to thrash out how to achieve the Paris climate agreement, which came into force on Friday. The Marrakech meeting is the 22nd Congress of Parties (or COP22) to the...
Supermoons are big and bright, but not as rare as the hype would suggest
Nov 09, 2016 08:38 am UTC| Science
As an observational astronomer who teaches students about the behavior of the moon, Im thankful for anything that inspires people to go out and look at the sky. For me its second nature to pay attention to the moon; when...
Why all the super buzz about the supermoon?
Nov 09, 2016 08:34 am UTC| Science
A beautiful full moon will grace our skies on Monday November 14 this year. Full moons always rise around sunset, so look for it towards the east during evening twilight. Every month, occasionally even twice a month,...
Study sheds light on violent asteroid crash that caused mysterious 'crater rings' on the moon
Nov 04, 2016 04:52 am UTC| Science
Some 3.8 billion years ago, the moon was a dangerous place constantly bombarded with asteroids and comets. Our celestial neighbour still bears the scars of this time, in the shape of craters. The biggest of these are...
Supercomputer Comes Closer To Proving Dark Matter Existence
Nov 03, 2016 03:39 am UTC| Science
Scientists from Germany and Hungary have just come closer to proving the existence of dark matter thanks to the use of a supercomputer. The machine crunched some numbers and came up with a prediction regarding the mass of...
Relax, the expansion of the universe is still accelerating
Oct 31, 2016 02:33 am UTC| Science
Theres been a whirlwind of commentary of late speculating that the acceleration of the expanding universe might not be real after all. It follows the publication this month of a new look at supernovae in our universe,...
Magma power: how superheated molten rock could provide renewable energy
Oct 30, 2016 23:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
Iceland is about to tap into water as hot as lava. Several kilometres below ground, a drilling rig named Thor will soon penetrate the area around a magma chamber, where molten rock from the inner Earth heats up water that...