The Second Rupture: How the Information Parameter Will Rebuild Civilization from the Ground Up We are not living through a digital upgrade of the existing world. We are standing at the threshold of a civilizational rupture as total and as disorienting as the Industrial Revolution — and most obse...
A new study, led by IIASA researchers and coauthored by UNEP colleagues, finds that if governments fully implement their methane reduction plans, they could reduce global emissions by 11% between 2020 and 2030. This would reverse the current trend of increasing methane emissions, but would not b...
"Why haven't farm animals evolved to protect themselves against humans?
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) were surprised to discover the earliest phases of giant planet formation between the dense layers of gas and dust in the "Gomez's Hamburger" system, referred to as GoHam.
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The gas orbiting Sagittarius A (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, is rich in metals, researchers at McGill University's Trottier Space Institute have found. The metal enrichment probably resulted from stars that exploded and released material into the bl...