Science

Amazon Rainforest Absorbing Less Carbon Than Expected

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View from the top of a measurement tower, where researchers monitor critical forest canopy processes such as photosynthesis, plant...

GRACE-FO Shows the Weight of Midwestern Floods

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North America was almost entirely above its long-term average in mass in May 2019, due to Midwestern flooding, with the runoff raising...

A battery-free sensor for underwater exploration

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A battery-free underwater “piezoelectric” sensor invented by MIT researchers transmits data by absorbing or reflecting sound waves...

NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface

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This artist's illustration depicts the exoplanet LHS 3844b, which is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits an M dwarf star...

Rocky, Earth-sized exoplanet is missing an atmosphere

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Artist’s rendering of the surface of LHS 3844b, a planet that has been found to have no atmosphere....

Physicists design an experiment to pin down the origin of the elements

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A new experiment designed by MIT physicists may help to pin down the rate at which huge, massive...

Scientists Observe the Explosion of a Monster Star Requiring New Supernova Mechanism

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Automated Observing Network Inaugurated Telescope

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SOAR telescope (left) and Gemini Observatory (right) The 4.1-meter SOAR telescope at Cerro Pachón in Chile, is the pathfinder...