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The flights across the Atlantic will be more bumpy
Dr. Paul Williams, a researcher at the University of Reading in England, and colleagues used meteorological models to understand the changes in wind speed in the North A…
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Synchronize traffic lights to avoid traffic jams
To accelerate the speed of street traffic, the city of Los Angeles (USA) has synchronized about 4,000 traffic lights, and is the first city in the world to install this…
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Russia: Thousands of cars stuck 3 days on the highway
Due to the heavy snowfall, Russia's high-speed highway connecting Moscow and St.Petersburg has been severely congested when tens of thousands of vehicles were stuck. Man…
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Urban 'swallowed' 20,000 football fields every day
The pace of expansion of cities is at its highest level in human history and the world loses an area of 20,000 American football fields every day because of urbanizati…
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America takes advantage of Arctic ice to track submarines
The Arctic ice is melting at the greatest speed in history and this speed tends to increase. That situation can make military and commercial activities more frequent in…
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The Arctic ice will disappear in the next 10 years?
Dr. Seymour Laxon and his colleagues at the University of London's Polar Observatory and Model Center conducted a study on the melting speed of ice in the Arctic through…
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6 most obvious consequences of climate change
Climate change sea makes flowers bloom earlier, the breeding season of animals changes and military activities increase sharply in the Arctic. The global average tempera…
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The mystery of the rise of the Himalayas
According to a new hypothesis, the speed of collisions between tectonic plates on the earth is slowing, creating a great repulsive force affecting the altitudes of the H…
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Mystery 'underworld' on the bottom of Antarctica
Scientists have just completed the most detailed map of the sunken part of the white continent, which is a map of the Antarctic bottom mountain range. This startling ima…
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New breakthrough in bioenergy
In the context of the depletion of fossil fuel sources that are increasingly depleted at the speed of human hope is expected to rely on new energy sources, including bio…
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Antarctic glaciers are melting at a rapid rate
News from the Japan Aviation Exploration Agency and the US space exploration agency said scientists from the two countries have discovered Antarctic glaciers are melting…
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The Arctic ice melted four times faster than forecast
US scientists have confirmed that the Arctic ice sheets are thinning at a rate four times faster than the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecast.
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NASA completed the first glacial map of Antarctica
The first complete map of the speed and direction of the Antarctic glaciers has been completed by scientists under the auspices of NASA, the US National Air and Space Ad…
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Super waves appear more and more
According to a scientific study conducted by Swinburne University of Technology (Australia), the global elevation of super waves is significant in the last 25 years, ave…
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Earthquakes in Japan make the day shorter
The day became a little shorter due to the impact of intense earthquakes in Japan yesterday.