Scientists have reviewed decades of satellite measurements to reveal how and why Antarctica’s glaciers, ice shelves and sea ice are changing. Their report explains how ice shelf thinning and collapse …read more Source:: Science
Day: June 13, 2018
Antarctica ramps up sea level rise
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•Ice losses from Antarctica have increased global sea levels by 7.6 mm since 1992, with two fifths of this rise (3.0 mm) coming in the last five years alone. The …read more Source:: Science
Organics on Ceres may be more abundant than originally thought
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•A new analysis of data from NASA’s Dawn mission suggests that organic matter may exist in surprisingly high concentrations on the dwarf planet’s surface. …read more Source:: Science
How Red Hat Linux is helping reclaim the fastest supercomputer title for the US
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•It’s not just the chips in the Department of Energy’s record-breaking Summit supercomputer, which is setting new speed records; it’s also Red Hat Enterprise Linux. …read more Source:: Linux
Environmental threats put bumblebee queens under pressure
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•Researchers found that environmental threats are piling onto the stress faced by nest-building bumblebee queens. …read more Source:: Science