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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
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New antibiotic could stave off drug-resistant gonorrhoea

Thu, 12/11/2025 - 6:30pm
Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the microbe responsible for gonorrhoea, is developing resistance to most antibiotics, which means we need new drugs to treat the condition. An antibiotic called zoliflodacin might be part of a solution
Categories: Astronomy