Hidden Heat Maps: Rock Lizards Outsmart the Wind on a Turkish Mountain
New field research on Mount Spil reveals that the endemic Anatolian rock lizard actively thermoregulates by exploiting solar radiation and ...
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Mountain Shadows Offer a Hidden Shield Against Climate Warming
New simulations show that topographic shading can cut energy costs for diurnal ectotherms by over 20 percent, yet nearly half ...
Vertical Farming Cannot Beat the Sun, but Physics Is Not the Whole Story
A new commentary argues that vertical farming's energy inefficiency is real but that system-level factors such as urban integration, circular ...
Less Shelter, Better Survival: Rethinking How We Protect Ancient Cave Temples
A resilience-based study at China's Longmen Grottoes shows that lighter, more open protective structures can preserve ancient cave temples better ...
Sizing the Sun: New Study Maps the Energy Limits of Stratospheric Airships
A new study maps how solar panel area, battery capacity, energy management strategy, season, and latitude jointly determine whether a ...
China’s climate record gets a 60-year cleanup as scientists scrub hidden biases from the data
A Peking University team has released HCD01, a homogenized daily gridded climate dataset for China covering 1961 to 2022, after ...
Sun and Wind, Not Temperature, Drive Evaporation Across Brazil’s Climates
A thirty-year analysis of six Brazilian cities shows that solar radiation and wind speed, not air temperature, govern reference evapotranspiration, ...
India’s sunshine records reveal a century-old model needs local recalibration
A 41-year analysis of 24 Indian weather stations shows the Ångström–Prescott model needs locally recalibrated coefficients and reveals significant long-term ...
Grouped caterpillars stay cooler than the air when temperatures climb
A field study of gregarious swallowtail caterpillars shows that groups, unlike solitary larvae, become significantly cooler than the surrounding air ...
NASA’s Free Weather Data Passes a Decades-Long Stress Test Across Two Continents
A new study validates NASA POWER satellite-derived weather data against 40 ground stations in the US and Türkiye, finding strong ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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