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A University of Gothenburg study finds thawing permafrost released massive amounts of carbon after the last Ice Age, potentially accounting for nearly half of the atmospheric carbon dioxide increase that accompanied Earth’s transition into a warmer climate.
New research suggests thawing permafrost caused nearly half of Earth’s post-Ice Age carbon dioxide increase.
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A Chalmers team built physics into AI, cutting optical material design time from 30 days to 3.
AIDigital ‘super-brain’ with a physics education speeds up technology developmentShy Cohen
An internal view of the reactor system that efficiently converts carbon dioxide and renewable electricity into methane.
Green ImpactScientists turn carbon dioxide into renewable methane using microbesJoshua Shavit
Antarctica’s first amber reveals a 90-million-year-old conifer rainforest that once grew near the South Pole.
Green ImpactFirst-ever amber discovery in Antarctica reveals lost prehistoric rainforestJoseph Shavit
MIT researchers developed a low-temperature process that extracts battery-grade lithium from spodumene with far less waste and energy.
Green ImpactNew low-temperature process extracts battery-grade lithium with far less waste and energyRebecca Shavit
Forest ranger Greg Whipple first spotted the fungus in 1988, estimating it spread across 400 acres.
Green ImpactThe world’s largest fungus is hiding in Oregon’s Blue Mountains — and its really bigRebecca Shavit
Scientists warn that rising microplastic pollution could weaken the ocean’s natural carbon storage system by harming phytoplankton.
Green ImpactMicroplastics may be weakening the ocean’s ability to fight climate changeHannah Shavit-Weiner
Study finds 44% of cotton T-shirt fiber is lost during production, limiting how much material can actually be recycled.
Green ImpactNearly 50% of all cotton T-shirts are wasted before purchaseRebecca Shavit
Blood cells may have begun as macrophage-like cells 700 million years ago, linking human immunity to single-celled ancestors.
HealthBlood cells originated from single-celled ancestors 700 million years agoMac Oliveau
Simulations suggest one dust trap beyond Jupiter formed multiple planetesimal types over millions of years.
SpaceMysterious dust ring beyond Jupiter formed many of our Solar System’s earliest worldsJoshua Shavit
A new reusable brick wall system from Austrian researchers could reduce construction waste and cut carbon emissions by 60%.
Green ImpactReusable brick walls could slash construction carbon emissions by 60%Rebecca Shavit
Researchers developed a semiartificial leaf that uses sunlight, carbon dioxide and engineered bacteria to grow living biomass.
Green ImpactResearchers turn sunlight and CO2 into living biomassRebecca Shavit
Scientists found water-rich fault barriers that repeatedly stop magnitude 6 earthquakes on the Gofar transform fault.
Green ImpactScientists solve the 30-year mystery of ‘clockwork’ earthquakesBreaking Science
Fossils from ancient Australian seas suggest early eukaryotes depended on oxygen and lived mainly on the seafloor.
Green ImpactAncient fossils suggest complex life got its start on an oxygenated seafloorRebecca Shavit
Ancient genome duplications may have helped flowering plants survive asteroid strikes, warming and cooling across Earth’s history.
DiscoveriesWhy flowering plants survived Earth’s greatest extinction while dinosaurs did notJoshua Shavit
A new study reveals that life on early Earth depended on molybdenum and tungsten billions of years before oxygen filled the atmosphere.
DiscoveriesLife depended on a rare metal for survival – billions of years agoRebecca Shavit
T. rex reconstruction. A reconstruction of Tylosaurus rex in the Cretaceous-era Western Interior Seaway of North America.
Green ImpactThis giant predator is literally the T. rex of the seaMac Oliveau