Warm millennium, that is. And Southern Hemisphere, that is. New research suggests that Earth will continue to warm into the year 3000, even if human-caused carbon dioxide emissions stop right…
It seems counter-intuitive, but it seems that warmer summers actually slow the flow of Greenland’s ice sheets. A new study, published yesterday in Nature, explains how increased melting in warmer…
…from The Wall Street Journal about astronomers’ latest discoveries of new planets and how they’ll know if they’ve found a planet that can support life. The Search for Other Earths…
A new study from the University of Colorado suggests that 66% of Earth’s permafrost could disappear by the year 2200. And this could be really bad for Earth’s temperature. If…
Sencha has the latest on the new iPad’s HTML5 performance, and the verdict looks quite good: The iPad 2’s Mobile Safari browser is the best implementation of WebKit on a…
Nearly every day, newspapers report on new scientific breakthroughs. Scientists provide measures of their uncertainty in the results, expressed as a p-value. The p-value is a statistical measure of the…
…the basis for life in our solar system. New research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on April 4, 2011, shows that complex organic solids were…
In the past two days the New York Times has provided readers with six fascinating articles and discussions about online learning. One set is called Room for Debate: Can Young…
…The temperature differential during that last warm period was much smaller than it is today, when Antarctica is a frozen tundra. New research suggests that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC),…
…Tautz at Würzburg University found a new type of role known as the heater bees. The heater bees are responsible for maintaining the temperature in the hive where young bees…