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Death Valley approaches global heat record as US reels from extreme weather

Temperature at California national park hit 128F on Sunday as roughly one-third of Americans are under heat warnings

The Guardian - US

'Cannibal' coronal mass ejection that devoured 'dark eruption' from sun will smash into Earth today (July 18)

Two coronal mass ejections have combined into an enormous cloud of magnetized plasma that is forecast to hit Earth on Tuesday and potentially trigger a weak geomagnetic storm.

LiveScience

Activists accuse Scottish Government of 'greenwashing' hydrogen as fuel

ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners say there have been dozens of cases of hydrogen companies lobbying Scottish politicians since 2018.

The National (Scotland)

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Who was Eunice Newton Foote? Google Doodle celebrates the scientist and women’s rights activist

Google has paid tribute to the activist who planted seed of climate change awareness on what would have been her 204th birthday

Evening Standard

What do astronomers say about Moon landing deniers? Batting down the conspiracy theory with an assist from the 1969 Miracle Mets

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

The Conversation

Wildlife wonders of Britain and Ireland before the industrial revolution – my research reveals all the biodiversity we've lost

Travel back with me a few hundred years to before the industrial revolution, and the wildlife of Britain and Ireland looks very different indeed. Take orcas: while there are now less than ten left in Britain’s only permanent (and non-breeding) resident population, around 250 years ago the English cleric and…

The Conversation

As a summer heat wave pummels the US, an expert warns about the dangers of humidity – particularly for toddlers, young athletes and older adults

Because of climate change, summers are getting hotter and more humid – much more humid. SciLine interviewed Dr. W. Larry Kenney, professor of physiology and kinesiology at Penn State University, who discussed why humid heat can be dangerous to human health and, in some cases, life-threatening; how heat stresses the…

The Conversation

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Elusive exoplanet is 'cosmic sculptor' that carved spiral arms of its star

An exoplanet orbiting a young star is carving out spiral arms in the gas and dust that is birthing its planetary system.

Space

20 Years Later, the Most Timely Sci-Fi Epic is Impossible to Find in the US

'Wonderful Days,' or 'Sky Blue,' is an overlooked mid-aughts anime that feels all-too prescient.

Inverse

Water on Mars carved deep gullies and left a 'great puzzle' for Red Planet history

Gullies on Mars may have formed when the Red Planet was highly tilted on its side, triggering dramatic shifts in climate that sent water cascading down slopes to carve out ravines.

Space

How Savanah Leaf and Tia Nomore personalized their ode to Black motherhood, 'Earth Mama'

LOS ANGELES — Writer-director Savanah Leaf never forgot how her life changed at 16, when she met her future sister's birth mother, a young woman not much older than herself.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: It’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity: the latest wake-up call on climate change

In the South and Southwest, and most intensely from Southern California to South Florida, a dangerous heat wave has gripped the nation, with 104 million Americans under a heat warning advisory. Records are being broken right and left: The first full week of July was recorded as the Earth’s hottest…

Tribune News Service

It’s a dog’s life: Earth Rated's new stylish and sustainable dog toys

Earth Rated has partnered with design studio Layer on new accessories and toys for dogs their owners will love too

Wallpaper

Indian group proposes radical new way to settle universe expansion dispute

Scientists from ICTS Bangalore have proposed a new way to measure the Hubble constant, which could help resolve a crisis in cosmology about how fast the universe is accelerating, using lensed gravitational waves observed by the next generation of LIGO observatories.

The Hindu

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Google Doodle celebrates American climate scientist Eunice Newton Foote’s 204th birthday

Google celebrates Eunice Newton Foote's 204th birthday with a Doodle. Foote was the first to discover the greenhouse effect and its role in Earth's climate. She also campaigned for women's rights and published two U.S. physics studies, the first by a woman. Her findings led to further experiments uncovering the…

Miami Herald

A new era for Florida’s phosphates: rare earth minerals for EVs instead of fertilizers

The periodic table you may remember from chemistry class had two additional rows of elements below the main table. In the top added row are rare earth elements, metals critical in everyday technologies like cell phones and flat-screen TVs. Their global demand has skyrocketed for use in renewable energy technologies…

The Independent UK

California's Death Valley sizzles as brutal heat wave continues

Death Valley is putting a sizzling exclamation point on a record warm summer across the globe as it flirts with some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded

Inverse

Stars Sometimes Grow Spiral Arms, And Astronomers Might Finally Know Why

Lots of galaxies have bright arcs of stars that spiral away from their center, including our Milky Way.

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Super-close supernova captivates record number of citizen scientists

Data from the closest cosmic supernova explosion to Earth for 10 years was collected by a record number of observers for SETI, showing what the collective power of citizen scientists can achieve.

Space

Hubble telescope captures stunning shot of spiral galaxy (photo)

A dazzling new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a distant galaxy that hosted a supernova explosion not long ago.

The Hindu

Science This Week | Chandrayaan-3 mission begins, scientists declare a new geological epoch and more

Check out The Hindu’s science wrap featuring top 7 stories on new discoveries, findings, and studies in the scientific world from this week.

FourFourTwo

Ranked! The 100 best stadiums in the world

The best stadiums in the world from all corners of the globe: this is your ultimate match-going bucket list

The Hindu

Chandrayaan-3 | A flight to the moon

India's third lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3, has captured the imagination of the public as it sets off to the moon. With improved designs and safeguards, ISRO hopes to succeed in the mission and become the fourth nation to land on the moon. If successful, it will be a major fillip for…

Inverse

This Small Canadian Lake Could Signal The Beginning of a New Geological Epoch

Are we really living in the Anthropocene, the geological time marked by the global impact of human activity? And if so, when did it begin?

The Hindu

ISRO performs Chandrayaan-3’s first orbit-raising manoeuvre

The manoeuvre was performed by the ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru

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