Weakening ice shelf has caused crucial Antarctic glacier to accelerate
Giant icebergs have been breaking off the edge of Pine Island ice shelfNASA/Brooke Medley A…
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Scientists Denounce Trump’s Plan to Kill Crucial Atmospheric Science Center
December 17, 20252 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmScientists Denounce Trump’s Plan to Kill…
NASA discovers ‘space gum’ and sugars ‘crucial to life’ in asteroid Bennu samples brought to Earth (video)
Scientists have detected several sugars essential for life in the samples brought back from asteroid…
Easily taxed grains were crucial to the birth of the first states
Cereal farming produced excess food that could be stored and taxedLUIS MONTANYA/MARTA MONTANYA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY…
Rapid melt from Antarctica could help preserve crucial ocean current
Melting ice in Antarctica could have an impact on ocean currentsJUAN BARRETO/AFP via Getty Images…
Trump killed a crucial disaster database. This nonprofit just saved it.
As the Trump administration deletes climate data and shutters resources that track the impacts of…
SpaceX scrubs crucial Starship Flight 10 launch again, this time due to weather
SpaceX called off the planned 10th test flight of its Starship megarocket for the second…
A crucial methane-tracking satellite has died in orbit
An artist’s impression of the MethaneSAT satelliteEnvironmental Defense Fund/NASA A satellite known as MethaneSAT, anticipated…
Weather Forecasters Lose Crucial Hurricane Detection Microwave Satellite Data
On television broadcasts and forecast maps, hurricanes appear as two-dimensional swirling vortices, belying their extremely…
China’s next-gen astronaut capsule for moon missions aces crucial pad-abort test (video)
China is advancing the development of the technology it needs to try to beat NASA…