Scientists have made an exciting discovery—ancient tectonic plates have been found in places they shouldn’t be. Normally, these plates are thought to be hidden deep beneath the Earth’s surface in subduction zones, where one plate dives under another. But using a new, advanced model, researchers from ETH Zurich and the California Institute of Technology found […]
New research suggests that volcanoes were still active on the moon when dinosaurs roamed Earth. This finding comes from three tiny glass beads collected from the moon’s surface by the Chinese Chang’e 5 mission in 2020. The chemical analysis of these beads shows that lunar volcanoes may have erupted as recently as 120 million years […]
WASHINGTON: New studies using AI show that climate change is making days longer on Earth and causing the planet to wobble more. Researchers used a smart program that combines real-world data with physics to predict these changes. The length of a day on Earth is about 86,400 seconds, but this can change by tiny fractions […]
After experts confirmed that July was on course to be the world’s hottest month on record, UN Secretary General António Guterres declared that the era of global warming was over and that “the era of global boiling has arrived.” Guterres’ remarks were prompted after scientists confirmed on Thursday that the previous three weeks were the […]
As the second-largest economy in the world explores new frontiers above and below the planet’s surface, Chinese scientists have started drilling a 10,000-meter (32,808 foot) hole into the Earth’s crust. According to the official Xinhua News Agency, drilling for what is expected to be China’s deepest ever borehole started on Tuesday in the nation’s oil-rich […]
New York: Glaciers are “critical to all life on Earth”, the UN chief reminded the UN 2023 Water Conference warning that unless the rise in sea level due to global warming is reversed, “the consequences will be catastrophic.” Secretary-General António Guterres told a conference side event dedicated to the issue of preserving the world’s glaciers […]
UAE: UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan announces that 2023 is the #YearofSustainability with the following statement: “Effective climate action requires a shared vision and collective will. As the host of #COP28, we are committed to fulfilling our role as a global convener and will continue to support action and innovation […]
Earth: An asteroid from space slammed into the Earth’s surface 66 million years ago, leaving a massive crater underneath the sea and wreaking havoc on the planet. It isn’t the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs to extinction, but a previously unknown crater 248 miles off the coast of West Africa that was created right around […]
Dubai: The Suhail star is expected to be seen over the southeastern horizon in the UAE and central Arabia, starting from the dawn of August 24. During this time, temperatures begin to fall from this date, because of the Earth’s distance from the sun, after hitting highs of 50°C in some parts of the region. […]
New York: Studying bizarre underwater snow below ice shelves on Earth can help understand the ice shell of Jupiter‘s moon Europa, as per researchers. Europa is a rocky world about the size of the Earth’s moon that is surrounded by a global ocean and a miles-thick ice shell. Below Europa’s thick icy crust is a massive, […]
Florida: The space tourism race is booming, but one company is hoping to carve out a niche as “the only carbon-neutral, zero-emission way” to travel to the edge of space. Space Perspective plans to take passengers up to 100,000 feet for suborbital adventures in a pressurized capsule suspended from an enormous high-tech version of a […]
