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Glowing coral reefs are striving to recover from bleaching, study says
As oceans warm due to climate change, some coral reefs have been devastated in recent years by bleaching events that cause them to die and damage the biodiversity that depends on them. Multiple studies are underway to understand more about these bleaching events and if corals can bounce back. While bleaching is associated with the…… MORE
Snow is turning green in Antarctica — and climate change will make it worse
Green snow created by blooming algae in the Antarctic Peninsula is likely to spread as temperatures increase as a result of climate change, researchers have said, after creating the first large-scale map of the organisms and their movements. Satellite data gathered between 2017 and 2019, combined with on-the-ground measurements over two summers in Antarctica, allowed…… MORE
Trump can’t stop giving the finger to his own government
US President Donald Trump can’t stop giving the finger to his own government. Everyone should wear a mask in public, say US medical authorities hoping to control the coronavirus — but don’t expect the President to set an example. Instead, Trump hopes to ward off Covid-19 by dosing on hydroxychloroquine — an unproven drug that…… MORE
US wants to send ancient artifact Hobby Lobby bought for $1.6 million back to Iraq
Federal authorities want a rare, ancient artifact returned to Iraq after it was sold to a US craft store for $1.6 million in an auction. In 2014, Hobby Lobby, a privately owned arts and crafts retailer whose president is also the chairman of the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., bought the clay tablet…… MORE
Coronavirus set global school enrollment back four decades, says UN agency
The coronavirus has set global school enrollment back four decades, as closures and recessions in many countries have hit education, according to a new report by a United Nations agency. Tracking global changes since 2019, researchers at the UN Development Programme have found that education, health and income measures sharply dropped after the coronavirus emerged…… MORE
Fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls long thought to be blank contain text that’s invisible to the naked eye
For decades, fragments from the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls were stowed away at the University of Manchester, deemed largely worthless. Yes, they were still significant as authentic fragments of the coveted scrolls have been hard to come by, but they were blank, and therefore, just scraps of paper. Until now. Researchers have found that four…… MORE
Astronomers spot ‘twist’ evidence of a baby planet in a young star system
A spiral marks the spot where a baby planet is forming around a star in a young system 520 light-years from Earth in the Auriga constellation. The planet birth is visible in new images and observations made by astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. A study was also published Wednesday…… MORE
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Antarctic penguins release an extreme amount of laughing gas in their feces, it turns out
Laughing gas isn’t just something they give you at the dentist. It also comes out of penguin poop. How do we know this, you’re surely wondering? Well, a new study says just that. Published in the journal “Science of the Total Environment,” the study examined the effects of a King Penguin colony’s activity on soil…… MORE
