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Early Arrival of Spring Disrupts the Mutualism Between Plants and Pollinators

Gaku Kudo of Hokkaido University and Elisabeth J. Cooper of the Arctic University of Norway have demonstrated that early snowmelt results in the spring ephemeral Corydalis ambigua flowering ahead of the emergence of its pollinator, the bumblebee.

Super Salty, Subzero Arctic Water Provides Peek at Possible Life on Other Planets

In recent years, the idea of life on other planets has become less far-fetched.

No New Males: Climate Change Threat to Cape Verde Turtles

The University of Exeter study also warns that – by 2100 – more than 90% of loggerhead nests on the Cape Verde islands could incubate at “lethally high temperatures”, killing turtles before they hatch.

Moon-Forming Disk Discovered Around Distant Planet Jade Boyd

Using Earth’s most powerful array of radio telescopes, astronomers have made the first observations of a circumplanetary disk of gas and dust like the one that is believed to have birthed the moons of Jupiter.

NASA Takes Potential Tropical Cyclone 2’s Temperature

NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the Gulf of Mexico and took the temperature of Potential Tropical Cyclone 2 as it moved westward through the Gulf of Mexico.