Greenland ’ s Melting ‘ Zombie Ice ’ Will Raise Global Sea Level By 10 Inches, Scientists Warn
Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10 inches (27 centimeters) on its own, according to a study released Monday. Zombie or doomed ice is ice that is still attached to thicker areas of ice, but is no longer getting fed by those larger glaciers. That’s because the parent glaciers are getting less replenishing snow. Meanwhile the doomed ice is melting from climate change, said study co-author William Colgan, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. “It’s dead ice. It’s just going to melt and disappear from the ice s...
Source: TIME: Science - August 29, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Seth Borenstein/AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate Oceans wire Source Type: news

Your Doppelg änger Is Out There and You Probably Share DNA With Them
That person who looks just like you is not your twin, but if scientists compared your genomes, they might find a lot in common.
Source: NYT Health - August 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kate Golembiewski and Fran çois Brunelle Tags: Face Genetics and Heredity DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) Twins Facial Recognition Software Photography Microbiology Forensic Science Research Cell Reports (Journal) Brunelle, Francois your-feed-science Source Type: news

Zoom in: national science week prize puts photography under the microscope – in pictures
Lab-grown spinal cords and glowing fish larvae are among the incredible images from the researchers at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at Queensland University, as they celebrate national science week with an annual competition to find the best pictures taken under the microscopeContinue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 16, 2022 Category: Science Tags: Science Australia news Australian universities Australian education World news Research Source Type: news

August full moon: how to take a good photograph of the Sturgeon supermoon on your phone or camera
Guardian Australia picture editor Carly Earl explains the dos and don ’ts of photographing the celestial spectacle, the last super moon of of 2022Get ourfree news app,morning email briefing ordaily news podcastWith a ‘sturgeon’ supermoon rising, many people will pull out their mobile phones to try and get an Instagram-worthy photograph, but unfortunately the full moon is really challenging to get a great photo of.Two reasons: it is very far away and unless you have a telephoto lens (which makes the moon appear closer than it is) it will always appear as a very small glowing dot in the frame.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 12, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Carly Earl Tags: Photography The moon Space Science Astronomy Source Type: news

August full moon: how to take a good photograph of the Sturgeon supermoon on your phone or camera tonight
Guardian Australia picture editor Carly Earl explains the dos and don ’ts of photographing the celestial spectacle, the last super moon of of 2022Get ourfree news app,morning email briefing ordaily news podcastWith a ‘sturgeon’ supermoon rising tonight, many people will pull out their mobile phones to try and get an Instagram-worthy photograph, but unfortunately the full moon is really challenging to get a great photo of.Two reasons: it is very far away and unless you have a telephoto lens (which makes the moon appear closer than it is) it will always appear as a very small glowing dot in the frame.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 11, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Carly Earl Tags: Photography The moon Space Science Astronomy Source Type: news

Supermoon August 2022: how to take a good photograph of the full Sturgeon moon on your phone or camera tonight
Guardian Australia picture editor Carly Earl explains the dos and don ’ts of photographing the celestial spectacle, the last super moon of of 2022Get ourfree news app,morning email briefing ordaily news podcastWith a ‘sturgeon’ supermoon rising tonight, many people will pull out their mobile phones to try and get an Instagram-worthy photograph, but unfortunately the full moon is really challenging to get a great photo of.Two reasons: it is very far away and unless you have a telephoto lens (which makes the moon appear closer than it is) it will always appear as a very small glowing dot in the frame.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 10, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Carly Earl Tags: Photography The moon Space Science Astronomy Source Type: news

Boise ' s Housing Market Boomed Early in the Pandemic. Now It Is Cooling Fast
Cities such as Boise that saw their housing markets explode are now expecting prices to fall as interest rates rise and companies call workers back to the office. #boise
Source: Reuters: Health - July 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Biden Administration Launches Website To Help People Cope With Extreme Heat
The federal government hopes a new website can help people and local governments beat the increasingly deadly heat of an ever-warming world. Days after nearly half the country — 154.6 million people — sweated through a blistering heat wave, which for the West, hasn’t quite finished, the Biden Administration Tuesday unveiled heat.gov, which includes maps, forecasts and health advice. The government can’t lower temperatures in the short-term, but it can shrink heat’s death toll, officials said. “July 2021 was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth and summers are getting hotter and deadl...
Source: TIME: Health - July 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: SETH BORENSTEIN and MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN/AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change extreme weather healthscienceclimate policy wire Source Type: news

A picture in time: Australia ’s part in the moon landing
The radio telescope at Honeysuckle Creek near Canberra transmitted the first images of Neil Armstrong on the moonWhen the lunar module of Apollo 11 landed on the moon and astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped on to its surface for the first time, millions of people around the world watched the images live on television.Nasa had five tracking stations around the world to record that moment and monitor the mission. The main station was at Goldstone in California, and Spain had one near Madrid. Australia had three: radio telescopes at Honeysuckle Creek and Parkes, and a deep space tracking station at Tidbinbilla.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 21, 2022 Category: Science Tags: Space Australia news Photography History World news Science Source Type: news

Noah Wilson-Rich: How city habitats help honeybees to thrive
On a rooftop garden in the middle of Manhattan, honeybee colonies are flourishing. Biologist Noah-Wilson Rich explains how collecting data from honeybee hives can help ensure a healthy future for all.(Image credit: Karchmer Photography / TED)
Source: NPR Health and Science - July 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rachel Faulkner Source Type: news

Cosmic beauty shots from NASA ' s Webb telescope
The world gets its first glimpse of ancient light courtesy of NASA's Webb telescope, the most sophisticated and ambitious deep-space viewing tool yet assembled.
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - July 12, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Times Photography Wire Services Source Type: news

Cosmic beauty shots from NASA's Webb telescope
The world gets its first glimpse of ancient light courtesy of NASA's Webb telescope, the most sophisticated and ambitious deep-space viewing tool yet assembled.
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - July 12, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Times Photography Wire Services Source Type: news

The story of Fred the mastodon, who died looking for love
A mastodon named Fred, also known as the Buesching mastodon, is a distant relative of the modern elephant. His remains reveal the story of his life and violent end.(Image credit: Eric Bronson/Michigan Photography)
Source: NPR Health and Science - July 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kai McNamee Source Type: news

Great auks and seal-headed men: a window into ice age Provence
The Cosquer cave near Marseille astonished the diver who discovered it with its ancient depictions of sea and land animals. Now it has been painstakingly recreated in the French port for all to enjoyIt was in 1985 that the diver Henri Cosquer discovered, along the coast from Marseille, what has been called an “underwater Lascaux” after the famous cave network in the Dordogne. After several failed attempts, he managed to follow a narrow tunnel, 120ft below the surface of the sea, for almost 400ft and emerged in a stunning decorated chamber. Subsequent visits revealed many images of the horses, ibexes and deer common in ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 2, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Matthew Reisz Tags: Archaeology France Science Europe World news Source Type: news

The week in wildlife – in pictures
The best of this week ’s wildlife pictures, including a stonefish, a mountain jerboa and a bevy of ottersContinue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 1, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Arnel Hecimovic Tags: Environment Science Insects Mammals Wildlife Marine life Zoology Biology Fish Birds Photography Animals Source Type: news

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