Unique soils data from long-term experiments, stretching back to the middle of the nineteenth century, confirm the practical implausibility of burying carbon in the ground to halt climate change. The idea of using crops to collect more atmospheric carbon and locking it into soil’s organic matter to offset fossil fuel […]
Daily Archives: February 28, 2018
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A theoretical framework explaining the risk of rare events causing major disruptions in complex networks, such as a blackout in a power grid, has been proposed by a mathematician in a new paper.
After the Big Bang, it was cold and black. And then there was light. Now, for the first time, astronomers have glimpsed that dawn of the universe 13.6 billion years ago when the earliest stars were turning on the light in the cosmic darkness. And if that’s not enough, they […]
Did the moon form out of a vaporised Earth?Sarah Stewart/UC Davis based on NASA rendering By Shannon Hall A shapeshifting Earth might have formed the moon. Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, a collision caused our planet to mushroom outward into a seething, spinning cloud of vaporised rock that resembled a […]
Schools in the South were most affected. More than one of seven educators in the South and one in eight nationally, reported that students’ learning was significantly affected because of their concern over classmates’ being deported. “This is affecting everybody,” Gándara said. “Other kids in the classroom, in the school, […]
It’s been rumoured for a while now but today saw the big confirmation for PS4, Xbox One and PC fans. Brigitte is the newest Overwatch Hero, who is now available to try out on the game’s PTR. The latest clues released by Blizzard pitted her against a new Cat hero, […]
Get the Think newsletter. SUBSCRIBE The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Jennings v. Rodriguez on Tuesday is a bizarre and dark new development in the American experiment. Not only because it’s a breakdown of the court’s ability to properly interpret the constitution (as they formally institutionalize a de facto second […]
Experts had previously believed the Moon was formed when a Mars-sized infant planet – known as Theia – hit Earth with a glancing blow, striking at a 45 degree angle some 4.5 billion years ago. As a result, chunks of Theia and Earth collected in Earth’s orbit to eventually form […]