A new study has confirmed what researchers feared since the breakup of the Milne Ice Shelf in 2020: Canada’s last epishelf lake, a freshwater lake dammed by an ice shelf, has disappeared. Based on a decade of ocean measurements, satellite images and field observations collected before and after the breakup, scientists have reconstructed the lake’s … Read more
EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has partnered with CNN to drive awareness and education around key sustainability issues and to inspire positive action. The story of the giant tortoises of the Galapagos … Read more
Something spooky has been detected at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. In the cascade of debris from high-energy collisions at the world’s most powerful particle collider, physicists have found compelling evidence of a phenomenon Albert Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.” It’s not the first time quantum entanglement has been detected at the LHC, but … Read more
The phrase “water is life” is true: water makes all known life on Earth possible. It’s also a key component in lubricating the super-slow motion of Earth’s mantle layer, hydrating those layers of rock enough for them to ooze and slide over each other. This is important for the tectonic cycle, which in turn helps … Read more
Since detecting gullies on Mars, scientists really hoped they meant our neighboring planet once hosted liquid water. Then, in 2014, NASA put the brakes on that theory; the ravines were much younger than we thought. Instead of water, the seasonal freezing of carbon dioxide (dry ice) was responsible for these familiar plots. But now the … Read more
Very few, if any, animals alone represent an entire geological episode that lasted almost 100 million years. But Tyrannosaurus rex is no ordinary animal. In addition to that fact, a series of recent finds have rekindled our childhood amazement for the most iconic child of the Cretaceous period. These revelations include evidence that T. rex … Read more
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the cutting edge of science and technology Scientists say the planet Mercury has been actively shrinking over the billions of years it has orbited the Sun, a process that is leaving cracked wrinkles like an old apple. At just one-third the size of Earth, it … Read more
An international team of scientists say they have detected an intriguing signal that could hint at evidence of dark matter, offering a clue that could bring the mystery of the elusive substance one step closer to a solution. Dark matter makes up about 85% of all matter in the universe and is about five times … Read more
AI-based protein structure models could be improved by incorporating data from pharmaceutical companies. Credit: Miyako Nakamura/Getty For drug discovery, protein folding models like AlphaFold have a data problem: There aren’t enough of them in public databases. Some scientists argue that improving the performance of these AI-based tools will require additional data that provides examples of … Read more
James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble discover 27 puzzling new objects orbiting the Sun far beyond Neptune SpaceNASA’s Hubble and Webb find distant Solar System objects that ‘remember’ the past NASA Science (.gov) UVic researchers use tiny icy bodies to study planet formation Sooke News Mirror27 tiny city-sized trans-Neptunian objects discovered, surprise astronomers with unexpected … Read more