By 2025, CO2 levels in the atmosphere will be higher than at any time in the last 3.3 million years
A new high-resolution record of atmospheric CO2.
How the Earth’s continents formed more than three billion years ago?
Plate tectonics research rewrites history of Earth's continents
How humans evolved to have distinct large, globular shaped brains?
The human brain: not just large but finely shaped.
The effects of climate change on the delicate food webs of the neotropics
Extreme rainfall events cause top-heavy aquatic food webs.
Engineers use electricity to clean up heavily contaminated wastewater
Powerful electrochemical process eliminates stubborn organic aqueous pollutants.
Scientists determined the beginning and end dates of the Shuram carbon excursion
The story of life on Earth is a tale of beginnings and endings.
New fungal pathogen found in NY apples orchard
In a study of New York state apple orchards, Cornell plant pathologists have identified a new fungal pathogen that belongs to genus Colletotrichum, that causes bitter rot disease in apples.
A novel, genuine, time-dependent topological system
Scientists recently realized a novel genuine time-dependent topological system with ultracold atoms in periodically-driven optical honeycomb lattices.
Earth’s magnetic field changes 10 times faster than previously thought
A new study reveals that changes in the direction of the Earth’s magnetic field may take place 10 times faster than previously thought.
New insights into van der Waals materials found
Layered van der Waals materials are of high interest for electronic and photonic applications, according to researchers at Penn State and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in California, who provide new insights into the interactions of layered materials with laser and electron beams.
Scientists observed the branched flow of light for the very first time
A team of researchers from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology has observed branched flow of light for the very first time.