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Migrating bats cleverly harness the warm winds of storm fronts to reduce energy use during their long seasonal journeys, as revealed by innovative tracking technology. Scientists found these tiny ...

New research published in the journal Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters reports significant progress in studying the ...

The sweeping land use changes and irrigation of the U.S. Corn Belt, along with the influence of the area's shallow ...

The Bureau of Meteorology has warned Australia is facing one of the hottest summers on record. As the weather warms, many of ...

The increasing amount of debris has heightened fears about the "Kessler syndrome". Named after an American astrophysicist ...

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BJ Fogg, a social scientist at Stanford University and author of Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything, ...

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A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say. The seven footprints, found amidst a clutter of hundreds of prehistoric ...

Science started seriously studying lightning in the 1960s with ... In the past, when an electrical utility wanted to predict weather events such as lightning, utility managers had to keep an eye to ...

Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd, a leading international expert in weather and climate, was the 2013 President of American Meteorological Society (AMS) and is Director of the University of Georgia’s ...