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Arctic sea ice likely reached its maximum extent for the year, at 14.78 million square kilometers (5.71 million square miles) on March 13, 2019, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder.
There isn’t much to hear in the middle of Antarctica. As CU Boulder’s Brian Hynek puts it, “There’s just wind and not wind.”
As the Yalobusha River rose around Greenwood, Mississippi, during a major rainstorm in late February, scientists from the Northern Gulf Institute at Mississippi State University deployed a small unmanned plane that took high-resolution images of rising waters and beamed them back in real time to NOAA weather forecasters.
Female birds age more slowly and live longer when they have help raising their offspring, according to new research from the University of East Anglia.
For many of us, birds are an interesting distraction or a sign of spring.
Oxford University researchers have discovered a brain process common to sleep and ageing in research that could pave the way for new treatments for insomnia.
