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The world will soon be losing 3000 glaciers every year

Mon, 12/15/2025 - 11:00am
Under current climate policies, 79 per cent of the world’s glaciers will disappear by 2100, endangering the water supply for 2 billion people and raising sea levels dramatically
Categories: Astronomy

How green hydrogen could power industries from steel-making to farming

Mon, 12/15/2025 - 6:00am
Many industries are eyeing up hydrogen as a source of clean energy, but with supplies of green hydrogen limited, we should prioritise the areas where it could have the most positive impact on carbon emissions, say researchers
Categories: Astronomy

Some Arctic warming ‘irreversible’ even if we cut atmospheric CO2

Fri, 12/12/2025 - 12:00pm
Efforts to lower the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may come too late to prevent long-term changes to the Arctic
Categories: Astronomy

Mars may once have had a much larger moon

Fri, 12/12/2025 - 10:00am
There are two small moons in orbit around Mars today, but both may be remnants of a much larger moon that had enough of a gravitational pull to drive tides in the Red Planet's lost lakes and seas
Categories: Astronomy

Qubits break quantum limit to encode information for longer

Fri, 12/12/2025 - 3:00am
Controlling qubits with quantum superpositions allows them to dramatically violate a fundamental limit and encode information for about five times longer during quantum computations
Categories: Astronomy