Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? In the 1960s and 1970s, the Apollo missions that landed on the Moon carried two types of seismometers: one to measure the longer-period seismic waves that originated deeper underground, and one to measure the shorter-period waves that originated closer to the surface or it. carries more energy (SN: 15.7.19). Seismometers plot the shape of the waves that shake the ground – some are low…
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Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? For some, chronic health conditions can add an extra kick or two when it comes to regulating body temperature. Not only do some conditions affect physiological cooling, but the medications that treat those conditions can also interfere with body air. Older people are especially vulnerable to these effects, both because they face higher rates of certain chronic diseases and because the body’s ability to…
As more and more species come close to extinction, scientists have been collecting samples of animals, plants and other creatures and storing them in biorepositories around the globe.SN: 5/8/19). But climate change, environmental disasters and wars threaten these modern Noah’s Arks (SN: 28/2/22). Now, a team of researchers is thinking of an out-of-this-world solution: building one of these huts on the moon. A biorepository in a permanently shadowed region at the moon’s south pole could be much more stable than those on Earth. Those areas typically remain around –196°C, the minimum temperature needed to preserve most animal cells long-term, research…
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? Previous research showed a temporal change in the reflectance of cuprates, compounds containing copper and oxygen, when exposed to light. This change showed a drop in resistance lasting only trillionths of a second, or picosecond. Critics argued that the change could be caused by effects other than superconductivity. The new study backs the applause. A cuprate expels magnetic fields when struck with light, physicist…
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? Bjornerud is exhausted and dizzy. She is dealing with the collapse of her department, the sleep deprivation of early motherhood, and a strained marriage to a terminally ill husband decades her senior. She empathizes with the forgotten granites. They have persisted for more than a billion years, although geologists’ interpretations of them have varied. Life is the same, she understands. “The past is immutable,…
To expand the periodic table, it may be time to use titanium. A new study lays the groundwork to expand the periodic table with a search for element 120, which will be done by slamming titanium atoms, or electrically charged ions, into a Californian target. If produced, the new element would have an atomic nucleus filled with 120 protons and occupy a new row of the periodic table. In a proof-of-principle experiment, scientists created the familiar element livermorium, element 116, using titanium for the first time. The experiment focused a beam of titanium ions onto a plutonium target. After 22…
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? But sending low-voltage electricity through waterlogged sands can stimulate the formation of minerals that help bind sediments together, Rotta Loria and colleagues report online Aug. 22 at Earth and Environment Communications. The mineral components are already dissolved in the seawater, the researchers point out. Sending just 4 volts through a mixture of sand and seawater for 28 days caused mineralization. Using a rod-like electrode…
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? The quasar is so distant that its light took 13.0 billion years to reach us, so we see it when the universe was only 770 million years old. However, at that early epoch, the black hole powering the quasar was already 2 billion times more massive than the sun, meaning that the black hole had swallowed a lot of material in a relatively short…
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? In some ways, Bonany says, Tutti is already outdated. “Temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius, which are becoming more and more in our future, are going to create some real problems,” says Mario Andrade, a plant geneticist at the University of Maine at Orono and co-investigator in a project to created climate-resistant potatoes. What happens to crops as temperatures rise? To hit that moving target,…
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? The distribution of the new vaccines comes just before a program that temporarily pays for vaccines for the uninsured expires at the end of August. That leaves about a week for people without insurance to decide whether to get a shot now at no cost. “If this is your chance to get the vaccine, and after that, you’re not sure if you’re going to…