NASA persistence finds first possible hint of ancient life on Mars

An image of a rock on Mars taken by the NASA rover Perseverance. Rocky white stripes flank a clay-colored area that is speckled with dark spots.

Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting readers’ questions about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? This isn’t the first sign of organics on Mars – the Curiosity rover detected organic molecules in a region called … Read more

More than 4 billion people may not have access to clean water

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Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting readers’ questions about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? This is partly because it can be difficult to collect data on the number of people using safely managed water … Read more

Something strange is happening to Earth’s inner core

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Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting readers’ questions about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? In an absolute sense, the inner core still rotates in the same direction as the mantle and surface. Imagine a … Read more

Jurassic Park inspires a new way to store DNA data

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Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting readers’ questions about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? The storage density of DNA is many times higher than that of any device humans have created. For example, if … Read more

More than 100 types of bacteria can thrive in microwave ovens

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Even the microwave oven in your kitchen is not immune to bacteria. The radiant environment inside a microwave oven can seem inhospitable to germs. But swabs from microwave ovens in several different areas identified more than 100 bacterial species, researchers report Aug. 7 in Frontiers in Microbiology. This is the first time scientists have documented … Read more

Scientists want to send endangered species to the moon

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Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting readers’ questions about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? “It’s great to have as many plans as possible, especially when it comes to saving our biodiversity and life on … Read more