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‘Climate free fall’: why the biggest risk to our economies has yet to be recognized 0
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- July 14, 2026
I have studied climate tipping points.1 for more than 20 years, and I am increasingly concerned that scientists have overlooked the most dangerous aspect of these for societies. The possible collapse of important parts of the Earth system (from ice sheets to ocean circulations) will profoundly alter the planet’s warming and tilt it irreversibly toward
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The mathematical formula found on the Mayan wall rivals the ideas of the ancient masters 0
- SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- July 14, 2026
The Mayan temple of Tikal in Guatemala is about a day’s walk from Xultun, where researchers discovered mathematical formulas scrawled on the walls.Credit: Kryssia Campos/Getty A mathematical formula inscribed on a wall at the Mayan site of Xultún in Guatemala has revealed for the first time the name of an important Mayan mathematician and astronomer.
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Rights for the rivers and ice cream for all: the best readings for the summer holidays 0
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- July 14, 2026
Is a river alive? Robert Macfarlane Penguin (2026) Turn off your headlamp in the Los Cedros cloud forest in Ecuador and the darkness begins to shine. Fallen branches and tree stumps glow a soft silvery yellow, illuminated by webs of fungi beneath the forest floor. It is a fascinating opening to the work of writer
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Editor’s Note: Today’s story is the answer to the July Puzzle. Call it an alluvial showdown. At the southern tip of Severny Island in the Russian Arctic, rivers descend from rugged terrain flanking a wide valley. Upon reaching flatter terrain, the waters slow down and distribute the sediments in the shape of cones called alluvial

Curiosities Blog, Sols 4941-4947: (Pin)Stripes on the 4th of July – NASA Science 0

Written by Deborah Padgett, MSL Operations Products Ground System Task Leader at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Land Planning Date: Thursday, July 2, 2026 Curiosity spent the week leading up to the July 4 holiday approaching a geologic boundary between a very smooth but somewhat sandy region and a rougher bedrock unit. Leaving the polygonal terrain