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Greenland ice is disappearing and being replaced by vegetation: in the last 30 years, 1.6% of the surface has become green, which has also caused profound changes in the landscape and ecosystems. This is revealed in an updated vegetation map led by Michael Grimes of the University of Leeds and published in the journal Scientific … Read more
New fossil discovered in ancient limestone deposits in southern China enabled us to make the extraordinary discovery that of some kind of dragon 240 million years ago. News, relaunched by user BBCmagazine published first Earth and Environmental Science: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, with an extensive description of a number of new fossils … Read more
A neutron star was indeed born from the remnants of supernova 1987A, the most studied in the history of astronomy and the only one visible to the naked eye in the last 400 years. This celestial body, defined as “degenerate” (composed mainly of neutrons held together by the force of gravity), is formed after … Read more
Surprise: the decimal point was invented about 150 years earlier than previously thought. This was revealed by an analysis of the astronomical tables he compiled Italian merchant and mathematician Giovanni Bianchini in the 1440spublished on Historia Mathematica. Historians say the discovery rewrites the origins of one of the most important mathematical conventions and suggests that … Read more