“The existence of caves at about 80°N between 350 to 670 m above sea level in a very cold, arid area is a surprise in itself, for they require flowing water to form.”
Arctic warmer than now half a million years ago
Counting Tyrannosaurus Rexes
How many Tyrannosaurus rexes roamed North America during the Cretaceous period?
JCVI Recommends Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna mRNA vaccines to be offered to pregnant women
The Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has announced it will be offering pregnant women the COVID-19 vaccine, in line with the vaccine roll out plan for the UK.
Astronomy Beginner’s Guide Part 4: The Moon
Part 5 of Duncan Lunan’s Guide looks at The Moon
“Evolution shaped these creatures into awesome, breathtakingly efficient flyers.” Azhdarchid Pterosaurs
Little is known about azhdarchid pterosaurs, gigantic flying reptiles with impressive wingspans of up to 12 meters.
Wildlife Diversity Key to Limiting Future Pandemics
“When we erode biodiversity, we favour species that are more likely to be zoonotic hosts, increasing our risk of spillover events.”
Where is Mars’s water?
The lake-bed sediments of Gale Crater on Mars from NASA’s Curiosity rover (credit: NASA/JPL, California Institute of Technology)
“It’s like a giant cork being removed from a bottle”: Melting Antarctic Ice Shelf
More than a third of the Antarctic’s ice shelf area could be at risk of collapsing into the sea if global temperatures reach 4°C above pre-industrial levels, new research has shown.
Developing an ‘Ocean Tricorder’
“An “Ocean Tricorder” – like the science-fiction tricorder of the Star Trek universe that can quickly assess properties of interest in real-time – would allow us to record all lifeforms in a specific part of an ocean at the push of a button.”
Astronomy Beginner’s Guide Part 4: The Sun
Part 4 of our beginner’s guide is about The Sun
