Antarctica’s Low-Ice Winter Should Only Happen Once Every 13 Billion Years (www.iflscience.com)
The implications for life in the Southern Ocean are scary enough; scientists are even more frightened about what has caused it.
China Has Imaged The Whole Of Mars And The Shots Are Mind-Blowing (www.iflscience.com)
Buzz Aldrin Wears Three Watches On His Arms (www.iflscience.com)
Two of the watches – NASA-issued Omega Speedmasters – have been on the Moon, while the other has stayed on the ground like a loser....
Vampire Bats French Kiss With Mouthfuls Of Blood To Develop Social Bonds (www.iflscience.com)
New research has shown that vampire bats form social bonds by sharing freshly drained blood with unfamiliar members of their roost. It might sound desperately gross, but this behavior is showing scientists that vampire bats are incredibly prosocial animals....
Humans Made Giant Sloth Bone Jewelry Over 25,000 Years Ago In Brazil (www.iflscience.com)
This is raising my skeptic hackles a little and I would love someone with more knowledge to let me know if there’s a good reason for me to be a little dubious.
SpaceX Under Fire As Starlink Satellites Found Leaking Radiation (www.iflscience.com)
Scientists are really not impressed.
Massive Heat-Emitting Mass Discovered Buried Under The Surface Of The Moon (www.iflscience.com)
Southern US Reaches Dangerous "Wet Bulb Temperature". Here's What That Means (www.iflscience.com)
Multiple southern states and a few midwestern states are at "extreme threat" levels of "wet bulb temperature".
407-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Plant Bamboozles Scientists By Not Following Fibonacci Sequence (www.iflscience.com)
Apologies for the silly clickbait headline.
Spiders The Size Of Basketballs Lurk Deep Inside Abandoned Mines In Mexico (www.iflscience.com)
Rare Book From 1698 Reveals Belief In Extraterrestrial Life On Saturn And Jupiter (www.iflscience.com)
Renaissance polymath Christiaan Huygens, whose namesake is the Huygens Probe that landed on Saturn’s moon Titan, speculated on life on Saturn and Jupiter. Of course, he thought they were solid worlds that beings similar to humans walked on, but he tried to base his ideas in rational thought tempered by the knowledge of the...
See Where The Planet's Carbon Dioxide Comes From In Incredible NASA Visualization (www.iflscience.com)
The visualizations show the carbon dioxide added to the Earth in 2021 as colorful smoke above the surface. In blue and green is the amount released by land ecosystems, plants and wild animals, and oceans. In red is the burning of biomass. And in orange is the release of fossil fuels. Flashing in green and blue are the places on...
See Where The Planet's Carbon Dioxide Comes From In Incredible NASA Visualization (www.iflscience.com)
The role of industrialized countries in polluting the planet is made visually obvious.
Officials Warn Kīlauea Volcano Eruption May Start Spewing "Pele's Hair" (www.iflscience.com)
Do not touch Pele's hair for your own safety.
Q: What would it taste like? (A Geologist Found The Oldest Water On Earth, And Then She Tasted It) (www.iflscience.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/661145...
A Geologist Found The Oldest Water On Earth, And Then She Tasted It (www.iflscience.com)
And a direct link to the embedded article at nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12127