Earth’s Unicorn Population Is Exploding
When the venture capitalist Aileen Lee coined the term unicorn, in 2013, there were 39 of them—roughly four minted every year. So far in 2021, 264 companies…
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Nuclear option: Earth’s climate panacea or poison?
Nuclear plants such as Cattenom in France provide massive power loads with no direct…
A Huge Subterranean ‘Tree’ Is Moving Magma to Earth’s Surface
Combining the data from the giant array with additional seismic data sets proved instrumental, as it allowed the team to precisely resolve an entire swath of…
Work on complex systems, including Earth’s climate, wins the physics Nobel Prize
Earth’s climate is a vastly complex system on a grand scale. On a microscopic level, so is the complicated physics of atoms and molecules found within…
Amazon Says It’s Relaxing Marijuana Policy To ‘Become Earth’s Best Employer’
Amazon has said it will further relax its marijuana policy for employees and is gearing up to support national legislation to legalise the drug. Citing its…
Volcanic eruptions may have spurred first ‘whiffs’ of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere
A new analysis of 2.5-billion-year-old rocks from Australia finds that volcanic eruptions may have stimulated population surges of marine microorganisms,…
Earth’s energy budget is out of balance: How does energy flow and what this means for climate…
The ConversationAug 10, 2021 14:31:45 ISTYou probably remember your grade school science teachers explaining that energy can neither be created nor…
Earth’s inner core is growing more on one side than the other – here’s why the planet…
Bristol/Cambridge (UK), July 30
More than 5,000 kilometres beneath us, Earth's solid metal inner core…
A century of astronomy revealed Earth’s place in the universe
A century ago, the Milky Way galaxy was the entirety of the known universe. We had no idea what made the stars shine, and only one star — our own sun —…
Shark teeth lost in Antarctica millions of years ago recorded Earth’s climate history- Technology…
The ConversationJul 13, 2021 13:55:24 ISTTens of million years ago, sand tiger sharks hunted in the waters off the Antarctic Peninsula, gliding over a…