Robert Larter Thwaites Glacier in western Antarctica in 2019. New study suggests it’s warm CNN — The Antarctic ice sheet is melting in a new, worrying way that scientific models used to project future sea level rise have not taken into account. This suggests that current projections could significantly underestimate the problem, according to a … Read more
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover stores rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on Earth’s surface for retrieval on future missions, as shown in this illustration. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Tucked away at every rock and soil sample collected by NASA‘s Perseverance rover is a potential boon for atmospheric scientists. NASA’s perseverance Mars Rover is collecting samples on … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — An extinct ribbon-like sea creature the size of a human hand was one of the first animals to develop a precursor to a backbone. Scientists recently identified the animal’s nerve cord by using … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. For about fifty years, the scientific community has been grappling with a substantial problem: there isn’t enough visible matter in the universe. All the matter we can see — stars, planets, cosmic dust and everything … Read more
5 Easy Ways to Boost ChatGPT Prompt Results 10x (Scientists Say) Getty Even if you’ve been using ChatGPT for a while, you probably make mistakes. Enough people to do. Falling into the common pitfalls of prompts, generating content that sounds way too ChatGPT, or ignoring the essential components of the perfect prompt; Even for the … Read more
Researchers identified a prehistoric marine reptile found in 1935 as a thalattosaur and not a choristodere, using CT scans and a new specimen. Reconstruction of Pachystrofeus rhaeticuspictured next to a hybodont shark feeding on a Birgeria fish. Credit: James Ormiston Scientists have reclassified a prehistoric marine reptile discovered in 1935 as one of the last … Read more
For hundreds of thousands of years, the woolly mammoth thrived on Earth, measuring its stately stride over the frozen lands. Then something happened. The earth has changed. And in a remarkably short time the mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) had disappeared; the last became extinct 4,000 years ago, on remote Wrangel Island in the cold Arctic. Although … Read more
New research shows that plasma fusion heat spreads more evenly in tokamak reactors, a milestone in the field of fusion energy. This suggests new ways to improve reactor efficiency and overall service life while reducing the chance of damage. The new findings from researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory … Read more
Nanoscale solutes with only small differences in size can be separated by membranes with identical pores – if they have enough opportunities to try. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory. Imagine a basketball game that comes down to the last shot. The chance of the ball going through the hoop may be quite small, but it would … Read more
This still image from a new simulation shows how plasma from the pedestal region is connected to the divertor plasma region via the so-called final confinement surface. The long and thin lobes fluctuate in time and space. Simulation credit: Seung-Hoe Ku/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory on DOE’s Summit computer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Visualization credit: … Read more