A number of candidates who prevailed in the last U.S. election can rightly be called populist in the 19th century "prairie populist" mold, opposing monopolies and concentrated power, championing the rights of the average citizen, ...

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Generative Artificial intelligence (AI) now appears across nearly all digital data processing, from generating text, images, and videos to coding advanced algorithms; AI agents manage complex tasks and projects. Caution remains necessary with AI-gene...

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Elpistostege watsoniBefore hands held paintbrushes, kneaded bread or fumbled for reading glasses already perched on our heads, their evolutionary beginnings were underwater. The fossil record has receipts. Meet Elpistostege watsoni, a Late Devonian f...

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It is a big day. VC has reached the ripe old age of 15 years! VC started on 15 November 2011, 15 years ago today. The blog and its lively community have grown up through the many eruptions, all unforeseen, since when Carl started our adventure: Barda...

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An armadillo already looks like a mammal dressed for a minor siege.Its extinct relatives took the idea considerably further.Glyptodonts were heavily armoured mammals whose rounded bodies sat beneath rigid shells made from bony plates called osteoderm...

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2026 was a year of new beginnings. Jenn Vaughn succeeded Bill Nye as CEO, and The Planetary Society launched "Together, We Explore," a strategic vision built on four goals: to inspire, mobilize, lead, and thrive....

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Science historian and Climate School professor Leah Aronowsky discusses her ongoing book project sparked by the 1970s energy crisis....

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Eagle Island Ice Cap in Sentinel images from early and late October illustrate the loss of a thin snow cover during October. The lack of snow cover on glaciers and ice caps on the east side of the Antarctic Peninsula is strking as the melt season ...

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The Mediterranean Sea has long been known to warm much faster than the global ocean. Within it, the Adriatic Sea is a particularly sensitive basin - due to its small size, representing 5% of the area and only 1% of the volume of the Mediterranean, it reacts rapidly to changes in air-sea interactions, precipitation and riverine input. It's also one of the few locations in the Mediterranean where deep water is renewed due to cold and dry bora wind, which in turn brings oxygen to the deep layers of the Eastern Mediterranean.

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The reflections below were composed EU's Neurodiversity Network following the EGU26 Short Course  "How to navigate EGU as a neurodivergent participant". 

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The north-east corner of Minnesota, sandwiched between Canada and Lake Superior, is covered with dense pine forest; glaciers have smoothed the terrain during the recent ice ages. "It's a spectacular place," says Nick Schofield, who is both Pulsar Helium's chief geologist as well as honorary professor at the University of Aberdeen. "It can be challenging...

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Celemonial signing of the Memorandum of Understanding of DENR-MGB and UKRI-BGS. BGS © UKRI.

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For the past few weeks I have been sitting on some news, which turns out to be a surprisingly difficult thing to do when part of your job is literally talking to people about science. Today the embargo has finally lifted: the European Research Counc...

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The year 2026 is expected to be Earth's 2nd-warmest year on record, with 2027 likely to be the warmest....

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The report warns that space-based data centers are likely to become a reality within the next few years--well before the risks of large-scale deployment can be fully understood....

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El Niño is a natural phenomenon in which warm water in the western Pacific ocean near the equator spreads eastward, until much of the equatorial Pacific is warmer than usual. When that happens, it affects temperature and rainfall patterns worldwide ...

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Our new Science Mission Impact study and dashboard examine 143 NASA science missions and 148,534 peer-reviewed papers. Our main finding: In every science division, the cheapest missions can't replace the science return of larger ones....

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The platypus already seems determined to keep zoologists busy.It is a mammal that lays eggs. It has a broad bill, webbed feet and dense fur. Males possess venom-delivering spurs on their hind legs. A perfectly ordinary afternoon in Australian natural...

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This post in made in conjunction with the Planetary and Solar System Sciences (PS) Division of EGU

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Drought is inherently difficult to quantify due to its complex and multiscale nature. As a result, our ability to assess and monitor this phenomenon depends heavily on the availability of high-quality datasets. 

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Texas has seen more than 1.2 M wells drilled throughout its history. The Railroad Commission (RRC), the oil and gas regulator in the Lone Star State, currently lists more than 12,000 wells as legally orphaned, a figure that has grown by more than a third in the past year. But the population of wells showing...

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Neuropteris sp.A coal mine drill core can bring up more than rock. Sometimes, it reveals a beautifully preserved fragment of an ancient forest. This Carboniferous fossil is tentatively identified as Neuropteris sp.--the "sp." means the species i...

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Above is B4 lidar topography data showing Wallace Creek in its glory.

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A Lamont-led study finds that global carbon budgets may underestimate how much carbon dioxide the ocean absorbs by roughly 5% to 15% because they do not fully account for the effects of rain....

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