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Throughout time, eclipses have inspired societies to understand the cosmos and its events. (Shutterstock) Nikhil Arora, Queen’s University, Ontario and Mark Richardson, Queen’s University, Ontario On April 8, 2024, there…

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Earth’s “Third Pole” and Its Role in Global Climate

August 27, 2023

Lake Ximencuo, a glacial moraine lake, sits among mountain peaks on the Tibetan Plateau. Credit: Tenace10/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: Reviews of Geophysics Located at the intersection of South, Central, and East…

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Digital technology, internet, network connection, and big data

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The Speculative Promise and Peril of Hyperintelligent Minds

July 11, 2023

Hyperintelligent entities, if they exist or will exist, could conceivably solve problems and generate insights that are currently beyond human comprehension. When we expand this concept beyond Earth, we delve…

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From 20,000 Miles Up, Our Home Planet Is A Hypnotic Swirl Of The Familiar And The Sublime

August 6, 2019

The Japanese weather satellite Himawari-8 was launched in 2014 for a planned eight-year mission to collect forecasting, weather-monitoring and research data. For his experimental short A Year Along the Geostationary Orbit,…

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Science

How The Maths Of Network Resilience Could Help Us Preserve At-Risk Ecosystems

July 29, 2019

Ecosystems are networks so intricate that their survival or collapse is extremely difficult to predict. However, by mapping the lifespans and studying the resilience of different ecosystems around the world,…

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