Share this on WhatsApp Buried in frozen soil across the Arctic, billions of tons of carbon lies trapped in the ground. Just a few degrees of warming could unleash it into the atmosphere. At least, that’s what the past would suggest. According to a new study, it’s happened before. The research, published Friday in the journal Science […]
Share this on WhatsApp Jeffery DelViscio: [00:00:00] Welcome to a very special episode of Science Talk. I’m Jeff DelViscio, senior multimedia editor at Scientific American. For months Undark magazine has been working on an incredibly ambitious five-part series on chronic kidney disease. It’s called Profit and Loss: America on Dialysis. Scientific American partnered with Undark […]
Share this on WhatsApp We may now have direct evidence that planets can survive unscathed the violent churn that attends their host star’s death. Astronomers have spotted signs of an intact giant planet circling a superdense stellar corpse known as a white dwarf, a new study reports. The white dwarf in question, called WD 1856, is […]
