We finally have an explanation for 2023’s record-breaking temperatures
But analysis of satellite data by Helge Goessling at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany and his colleagues revealed that 2023’s planetary albedo hit a record low.
But analysis of satellite data by Helge Goessling at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany and his colleagues revealed that 2023’s planetary albedo hit a record low.
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As a Black woman born in West Virginia in 1922, she was a contemporary of the Hidden Figures mathematician Katherine Johnson, and like her peer, Collins contended with both racism and sexism, which impeded her efforts to participate equally in the sciences and in society.
Preserved in a dried-out layer of sand and silt, the team found a trackway consisting of 12 footprints (see image, above), evidently left by one individual walking in a straight line.
Likewise, Franklin’s political views were dynamic — he argued forcefully that the colonies should remain loyal to Britain before embracing the calls for independence.
Or the term can refer to changes that occur as some natural progression within the non-living world (such as computer chips evolving to smaller devices which operate at an ever faster speed).
The researchers programmed a computer to control the nine servomotors in Pigeonbot II to steer the craft using propellers on each wing, but also to automatically twist and fan the tail in response, to create the stability that would normally come from a vertical fin.
That is partly because it is hard to maintain low-calorie diets for a long period of time, though that probably plays a relatively small role, says Laura Catharina Hinte at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in Switzerland.
A man diagnosed with Oropouche fever this summer still had functional virus in his semen 16 days after his symptoms started, a different group of researchers report in the December Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Inhabitants living in the many houses surrounded by curved, amphitheater-like residential patios may have enjoyed their time in the nearby lagoon, the researchers speculate, or at the city’s ball court, if they were not at the pyramidal temples taking part in rituals.
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