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A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life ...
There are still too few women in research. Less than 30% of all scientists worldwide are female. Even though in Germany, ...
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NASA planetary defence experts simulate catastrophic asteroid impact scenarios with a 72% Earth strike probability, as ESA's ...
Forest ecologist Mark Harmon has been exhaustively examining dead logs for 40 years, and he’s found a complex world few ...
In a world where facts seem increasingly negotiable and science is treated like just another opinion at the dinner table, ...
Scientists evaluated the conditions for intelligent extraterrestrial life and concluded that they were not rare and could be ...
Climate warming could cause much greater soil carbon losses in the tropics than previously predicted, with potentially dire ...
New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, revealing how rare and vulnerable our temperate moment is.