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The Great-Great-Grandmother of Climate Science

Legal Planet

Her paper was read at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The first climate science ever published was in 1856 by Eunice Newton Foote, who discovered that CO2 and water vapor trapped the sun’s heat. She deserves recognition as part of Women’s History Month, begun yesterday.

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Fossil Fuel Disinformation Threats Aim to Hinder Meaningful Action at COP28 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Combatting climate change has never been more urgent, and COP28 is poised to advance critical global action. While there are thousands of people here in Dubai at COP28 fighting for genuine change, the climate summit is facing a barrage of disinformation.

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Searching for signs of alien technologies

Physics World

In this episode of the Physics World Stories podcast astronomers discuss the search for signs of extraterrestrial technologies. The post Searching for signs of alien technologies appeared first on Physics World. Astronomers are looking for the technosignatures of advanced civilizations

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Delaware River Basin Commission Executive Director Steve Tambini Announces Retirement

PA Environment Daily

Under Steve Tambini’s impeccable leadership, the DRBC has significantly advanced water science and policy," said New Jersey Gov. Additional details concerning the search or selection process will be posted on the DRBC website. Tambini is the Commission's fourth Executive Director appointed since its founding in 1961. Phil Murphy.

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Microlensing reveals free-floating planets alone in deep space

Physics World

Without any host star, these roughly Earth-sized “free-floating planets” (FFPs) would be virtually impossible to detect using conventional exoplanet searching techniques – but should be detectable through the effect of gravitational microlensing. days, and weren’t accompanied by any stronger signal, which might indicate a host star.

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Bees follow linear landmarks to find their way home, just like the first pilots

Frontiers

Now, scientists have shown that honeybees tend to search for their way home by orienting themselves in relation to the dominant linear landscape elements, just like the first pilots. Non-random search pattern Menzel et al. The results are shown in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.

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A personal mission: one scientist’s search for a theory of everything

Physics World

In Shell Beach: the Search for the Final Theory , Grimstrup explains how he had a brilliant idea on a trip to China two months after his PhD defence, and how he has since tried to convince other physicists of it. It is not so much about the search for the final theory, but about his search in particular.

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