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Peatlands were drained for agriculture. Now researchers are trying to restore them
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain With wellies and waterproof clothing, Claudia Nielsen spent time splodging through the Bois-des-Bel peatlands earlier this year. The peatlands, located in Quebec, Canada, had been restored, with conservations working on them for 23 years. Nielsen was there to learn more about the restoration in her capacity as part of the coordination...
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Debris from a near-Earth comet could create new meteor shower this week
Comet 46P/Wirtanen on Dec. 12, 2018. (Image credit: Wikimedia Commons/Stub Mandrel) Earth may experience an entirely new meteor shower this December when our planet enters a stream of the debris left around the sun by a near-Earth comet. These meteors will appear to stream from the direction of the star Lambda-Sculptoris, meaning a potential name...
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Origin of life on Earth might not have come from the stars after all
The origin of life on Earth has always been a mystery. For many years, scientists have looked to the stars, believing that the building blocks of life that set forth evolution here on our planet came from an asteroid, comet, or meteorite. But now, some scientists say that the true origins of life on Earth...
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter gearing up for longest flight ever this weekend
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter acquired this image using its high-resolution color camera on its 66th Red Planet flight, which occurred on Nov. 3, 2023. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter is poised to set yet another record this weekend. The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity, the first robot ever to explore the skies of a...
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Chinese startup Galactic Energy bounces back with successful satellite launch
Chinese startup Galactic Energy’s Ceres-1 rocket launches two satellites to orbit on Dec. 4, 2023. (Image credit: CCTV) Chinese startup Galactic Energy is flying high again after a successful satellite launch on Monday (Dec. 4). The company’s Ceres-1 solid rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 6:33 p.m. EST on...
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800,000 years ago, a huge meteorite hit Earth. Scientists may have just found where.
Published December 5, 2023 9 min read In 2011 geologist Kerry Sieh and his husband were shopping in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, when they popped into a little jewelry shop to check out the country’s famous rubies and spinels. But once inside, a set of glassy, black blobs on the wall behind the counter...
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5 unmissable museums to visit in New York
Published December 4, 2023 10 min read It’s no stretch to say that New York City is the greatest arts destination in the States. The Big Apple is packed with cultural institutions, from the hallowed halls of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the city’s premier modern art museum, to the Museum of Broadway which...
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A ‘runaway star’ could save Earth from extinction a billion years from now. Here’s how.
News Science & Astronomy An artist’s depiction of an intruder star disrupting an infant planetary system. (Image credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)) About a billion years from now, the sun will have become much bigger, brighter and hotter, likely leaving Earth uninhabitable. However, a chance encounter with a passing star could save our planet...
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5 Ways Life on Earth Would Be Different If We Had Two Moons
Imagine that you’re looking up at the night sky — and instead of spotting a single moon above you, you see two glowing orbs instead. In this alternate reality, one of these celestial bodies is about the size and brightness of our present-day moon, but the second appears four times bigger and brighter. From this...