A new study led by scientists at the University of Arizona used historical tree-ring data to study a key driver for widespread, extreme summer weather events: locked jet stream wave patterns that are often preceded by winter La Niña conditions in the Pacific.
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Improved carbon-cement supercapacitors could turn the concrete around us into massive energy storage systems.
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New Space Weather Modelling Suite Enables Upper Atmosphere Forecasting
New suite of space weather forecasting models focuses on how space weather can influence the thermosphere and ionosphere here on Earth.
UMD Researchers Create First System to Track Near-Real Time Changes to Global Land Cover
Scientists can now receive near-real-time alerts about the world’s lands as their surfaces change, thanks to a new satellite-based monitoring system described today in Nature Communications.
New Prediction Model Could Improve the Reliability of Fusion Power Plants
Tokamaks are machines that are meant to hold and harness the power of the sun.


