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Indian summer monsoon amplified global warming 130,000 years ago, helping end ice age
Nature & Environment

Indian summer monsoon amplified global warming 130,000 years ago, helping end ice age

...study published in Nature Geoscience showed that the Indian summer monsoon pulled heat and moisture into the northern hemisphere when Earth was entering a warmer climate around 130,000 years ago. This caused tropical wetlands to expand northwards – habitats that act as sources of methane, a greenhouse gas. This amplified global warming further and helped end the ice...
Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we work

...studies on workplace burnout showed that workers who were happier, less anxious and more able to relieve stress were more likely to develop burnout than those in a comparison group without these traits. This largely forgotten study involved air traffic controllers in the US in the 1970s; it followed over 400 of them for three years. Most of the cohort (99%) had served in...
What do volcanoes tell us about the possibility of life on Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do volcanoes tell us about the possibility of life on Mars?

...study by a Czech-German-American team led by Petr Brož presents convincing new evidence convincing new evidence that at least some of these are genuine volcanoes. Brož and his team studied cones in Coprates Chasma, the deepest part of Mars’s Valles Marineris canyon system. This is far removed from any of Mars’s main volcanic provinces, and suggest magma has erupted...
How to find invisible black holes
Science, Maths & Technology

How to find invisible black holes

...study the stars themselves. Changes in the stars are harder to see than the dips in light from exoplanet transits. That means we can’t use automated algorithms to study stars or find black holes. Instead, we must look at the data by eye. But there is far too much data for the scientists to study, so we turned to citizen science for help. Whereas SuperWASP Variable Stars...
Can a space rock from Costa Rica reveal the origin of water on Earth?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can a space rock from Costa Rica reveal the origin of water on Earth?

...study for over half a century. But in 2019, meteorite scientists were once again blessed by the cosmic gods when a fireball crashed into the Aguas Zarcas region of the Alajuela province in Costa Rica, depositing yet another CM2. With a recovered mass in excess of 25kg, it is the largest recorded CM fall since Murchison. Billions of years ago the Earth was pummelled by...
The real reason clowns scare us
Health, Sports & Psychology

The real reason clowns scare us

...study what people find creepy and unsettling. As well as my recent studies of the uncanny valley (a disturbing region where things can be so close to human that they become frightening) I have been fascinated by ghost stories, horror novels and urban legends since I was young enough for trick or treating. But the coverage of the so-called “killer clowns” had pretty...
More than carbon sinks: Other ways forests can fight climate change
Nature & Environment

More than carbon sinks: Other ways forests can fight climate change

...studied capacity of storing carbon.” This new school of thought was presented at the CGIAR Research Programme on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) virtual symposium 21 and 22 March on the connection among forests, water and climate. The virtual symposium was held with live simultaneous conferences in Bogor (Indonesia) and Nairobi (Kenya). The Consultative Group for...
Club v Country: The psychology of switching support
Health, Sports & Psychology

Club v Country: The psychology of switching support

...studies conducted by Henri Tajfel and colleagues in the 1970s found that teenage boys would favour their in-group over their out-group even when the group was ‘virtual’ (the boys never met and there was no tangible link between them to create the group). At least this seems to be true of the cultures in North America and Britain. The results of this research were not...