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More than five million deaths a year can be attributed to abnormal hot and cold temperatures MONASH UNIVERSITY Research News IMAGE: INFORGAPHIC EXPLAINING COUNTRY BY COUNTRY MORTALITY DUE TO ABNORMAL TEMPERATURES OVER 2 DECADES …

A close pass of Comet Wirtanen in 2018 offered researchers an unprecedented opportunity. Comets are full of surprises. Not only do they often under- or very occasionally over- perform versus expectations, but they also offer a glimpse of…

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Andy May’s splendid brace of articles about climate sensitivity, which gives a concise and elegant summary of close to half a century of scientific debate, concludes as follows: “The ‘consensus’…

As usual, the SpaceX South Texas Launch Facility, located near the village of Boca Chica, is the focal point of a lot of attention. Almost two months ago, crews at the facility began working on the first true Super Heavy prototype, the…

By Andy May In Part 1, we introduced the concepts of climate sensitivity to CO2, often called ECS or TCR. The IPCC prefers a TCR of about 1.8°C/2xCO2 (IPCC, 2013, p. 818). TCR is the short-term, century scale, response of surface…

The standard model of cosmology is known as the LCDM model. Here, CDM stands for Cold Dark Matter, which makes up most of the matter in the universe, and L stands for Lambda, which is the symbol used in general relativity to represent dark…

Pioneering project listens for neutrinos from outer space DEUTSCHES ELEKTRONEN-SYNCHROTRON DESY Science Business Announcement IMAGE: THE FIRST STATION OF THE RADIO NEUTRINO-OBSERVATORY ON THE GREENLAND ICE. THE RED FLAGS MARK…

There are a number of radio telescopes in Australia and South Africa, which will soon be supplemented by a number of newly built systems for the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). Once in place, the SKA will have a collection area of ​​one…

University of Texas at Austin Research News IMAGE: The energy infrastructure along the Gulf Coast offers opportunities to capture and transport CO2 for storage. view more  Credit: Carol M. Highsmith/ Library of Congress. The…

One of the most difficult things to reconcile in science is when new data either complicates or refutes previous knowledge. It is even more difficult when these results have been widely disseminated and made known in the community. But…