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Winter storms in the Southern Hemisphere / NASA Worldview

Harder Winters, Stronger Storms

26.05.2022

Planetary Science, Environment, Climate

New data reveals climate change might be more rapid than predicted

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Breakfast of Champions

26.04.2022

Organic Chemistry, Nutrition, Evolution and Development, Environment, Climate

A new study reveals how microscopic algae became exceptionally nutritious over time, driving evolution forward

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Measured in Depth for the First Time

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Measured in Depth for the First Time

28.10.2021

Space & Physics, Astrophysics, Planetary Science, Climate

Weizmann Institute of Science researchers, together with their NASA collaborators, shed new light on Jupiter, revealing a surprising parallel with...

Smoke near Australia

How Bushfire Smoke Traveled Around the World

18.03.2021

Environment, Climate

A study uncovers how some Australian fires produced a spreading stratospheric haze rivaling that of a volcanic eruption

Entering the Cloud “Twilight Zone”

Entering the Cloud “Twilight Zone”

26.11.2020

Nearly invisible, all-but-ignored areas of thin cloud cover raise temperatures below

root

The Soil Talks Back

07.05.2020

Systems Biology, Viruses & Microorganisms, Environment, Climate

Learning to decipher this language might help grow better crops or increase production of plant-based drugs

hot water

How Hot Was the Ocean?

19.08.2019

Environment, Climate

Isotopes in iron oxides laid down two billion years ago hold clues to the conditions in which they were created

diatoms

Survival of the Fewest

08.08.2019

Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms, Environment, Plants and Agriculture, Climate

How do a handful of marine microorganisms live through a major crash?

Ice formation

Can an Antifreeze Protein also Promote Ice Formation?

14.03.2019

Chemistry, Climate

New research shows that some antifreeze proteins can do both

Yatir station

Standing up to the Heat

10.01.2019

Plants and Agriculture, Climate

A new method of measuring how forests moderate the climate gets tested under extreme conditions

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Human Tumors Are Prized Real Estate for Fungi, Study Finds

Origin of Life – In an RNA Pocket

Patterns of epigenetic markers revealed by EPINUC on blood nucleosomes (bright-red dots)

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