How Do We Measure Future Snow Cover?
During winter in the Northern Hemisphere, about one-third of Earth’s land surface is covered by snow. However, as a response to the intense global warming,…
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During winter in the Northern Hemisphere, about one-third of Earth’s land surface is covered by snow. However, as a response to the intense global warming,…
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Clouds are not located at the same altitude everywhere in Venus’ atmosphere. They are 10km lower at the poles than at the equator. This altitude…
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Our solar system contains a myriad of bodies with sizes ranging from a few meters to hundreds of kilometers. We call them asteroids. The most numerous…
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During the first stages of pregnancy, as the embryo travels down the fallopian tube it begins to transform from a loose cluster of cells into…
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In the past few decades, the rapid consumption of non-renewable fossil fuels has caused significant environmental and social problems on a global scale. Renewable energy…
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The moon is considered to have experienced a magma ocean, with whole-body melting. Differentiation and crystallization of the melt formed today’s crustal Moon. Major elemental…
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In 1971, President Richard Nixon declared a war on cancer (though with the Vietnam war still ongoing, he never actually used that phrase, calling for…
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The golden era of electric mobility may be upon us. In 2016, ~160,000 plug-in electric vehicles were sold in the US. To further achieve wide…
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The gravitational field outside a planet, a moon, an asteroid, or a comet is crucial for determining that body’s mass, density, and some details of…
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Eosinophils are a type of white blood cells involved in a variety of conditions, including allergic disorders (e.g. asthma, atopic dermatitis), drug hypersensitivity, parasitic infections,…
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More than 3000 planets outside our Solar system have been discovered. Around 20 of them are “Goldilocks planets,” planets that orbit the region surrounding a…
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