Marburg virus found in Sierra Leone bats
January 24, 2020 - Scientists have detected Marburg virus in fruit bats in Sierra Leone, marking the first time the deadly virus...
Deforestation in Bolivia
January 24, 2020 - This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features an area in the Santa Cruz Department of Bolivia, where part of the...
Snakes could be the original source of the new coronavirus outbreak in China
Chinese cobra (Naja atra)...
Galileo now replying to SOS messages worldwide
January 23, 2020 - As well as providing global navigation services, Europe’s Galileo satellite constellation is acontributing to saving more than 2000...
American College of Physicians Calls for Comprehensive Reform of U.S. Health Care
Washington, D.C. January 20, 2020—The American College of Physicians (ACP) today issued a bold call to action challenging the U.S. to implement systematic reform...
XMM-Newton maps black hole surroundings
January 21, 2020 - Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space – and now, for the first time,...
Taking the Temperature of Dark Matter
January 16, 2020 - Warm, cold, just right? Physicists at the University of California, Davis, are taking the temperature of dark matter,...
NASA, NOAA Analyses Reveal 2019 Second Warmest Year on Record
January 15, 2020 -According to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Earth's global surface temperatures in...
WMO Confirms 2019 as second hottest year on record
Geneva, January 15, 2020 - The year 2019 was the second warmest year on record after 2016, according to the World Meteorological...
Aerosol spread from Australian fires – video
January 9, 2020 -Ferocious bushfires have been sweeping across Australia since September, fueled by record-breaking temperatures, drought and wind. The country has...
How does your body respond to feelings of moral outrage? It depends on your...
January 8, 2020 - When you see someone being unfair, disloyal or uncaring toward others, do you feel a sense of moral...
NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World
January 7, 2020 - NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star's habitable zone, the...
Half of women with heart failure get the wrong treatment
Jan. 6, 2020 - More women than men die of heart failure. The reason is that only 50 per cent of the...
Study Confirms Climate Change Impacted Hurricane Florence’s Precipitation and Size
STONY BROOK, January 2, 2020 — A study led by Kevin Reed, PhD, Assistant Professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences...
New study estimates the global extent of river ice loss as Earth warms
January 2, 2020 - More than half of Earth's rivers freeze over every year. These frozen rivers support important transportation networks for...
North Atlantic Current may cease temporarily in the next century
The North Atlantic Current transports warm water from the Gulf of Mexico towards Europe, providing much of north-western Europe with a relatively...
'Cotton Candy' planet mysteries unravel in new Hubble observations
December 27, 2019 - When astronomers look around the solar system, they find that planets can be made out of almost anything....
Close to half of US population projected to have obesity by 2030
Boston, MA, Dec. 19, 2019 – About half of the adult U.S. population will have obesity and about a quarter will have...
Light pollution can suppress melatonin production in humans and animals
Dec. 19, 2019 - Melatonin sets the internal clock. Researchers from Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) in an international...
Thawing permafrost affecting northern Alaska's land-to-ocean river flows
AMHERST, Mass. Dec. 18, 2019 - A new analysis of the changing character of runoff, river discharge and other hydrological cycle elements...