Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Travel These are the 50 best places to travel to in 2020 Travel + LeisureWhat makes a place worth visiting right now? That’s what we at Travel + Leisure ask ourselves when compiling our annual list of the 50 best places to travel. Is it a show-stopping new hotel? A once-in-a-lifetime
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Travel Hike and explore Inca ruins on Lake Titicaca’s largest island National Geographic - Nathan StraussImmerse yourself in myth and nature on Bolivia’s remote Isla del Sol. On Bolivia’s scenic Isla del Sol, terraced hillsides and ancient ruins offer otherworldly vantage points over the seemingly endless
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Water The world's supply of fresh water is in trouble as mountain ice vanishes National Geographic - Alejandra BorundaThese high "water towers" provide a huge percentage of global fresh water, but climate change and geopolitical stresses endanger their existence. High in the Himalaya, near the base of the Gangotri glacier,
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Science A recount of every extinct Australian animal species has a crushing result Inverse - The Conversation The way we use Earth is threatening our future. It’s well-established that unsustainable human activity is damaging the health of the planet. The way …
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Migration A Deer Migration You Have to See to Believe National GeographicIt’s 2013, and for large mammals around North America, especially the Lower 48, we typically think we know what’s going on. And here we have hundreds of animals migrating 150 miles across private and lands,
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Molecular Biology DNA evidence's reliability called into question by human chimera Quartz - Ephrat LivniIn Greek mythology, a chimera is a fire-breathing monster made of multiple creatures: a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail. In real life, chimeras are rare and not quite as dramatic. But
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Science New kind of alien 'mineral' created on Earth National Geographic - Maya Wei-HaasThe discovery is helping researchers understand what might linger on the bizarre surface of Saturn's moon Titan. Morgan Cable crafts alien environments in miniature. She can stir up a shot-glass-size unleash
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Pollution Why do ocean animals eat plastic? National Geographic - How We Can Keep Plastics Out of Our OceanWhales with stomachs full of plastic have turned up around the world. Here's what we know. Why would an apex ocean predator eat gloves? Or rope? Or plastic cups? How does a whale end up with more than
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Science How a volcanic eruption helped create modern Scotland sciencemag.org - Sid Perkins Over seven terrible years in the 1690s, crops failed, farming villages emptied, and severe famine killed up to 15% of the entire population of …
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Science The Mystery at the Center of the Solar System The Atlantic - Marina KorenA spacecraft has finally gotten close enough to the sun to gather clues about some lingering questions. For a little NASA spacecraft, the weather outside is frightful. The Parker Solar Probe is on a mission
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Science These are the top 20 scientific discoveries of the decade National Geographic - DNA Hacking Tool Enables Shortcut to EvolutionThe 2010s yielded many incredible finds and important milestones. Here are our favorites. As the 2010s come to an end, we can look back on an era rife with discovery. In the past 10 years, scientists the
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.World News Raiders Of The Lost Crops: Scientists Race Against Time To Save Genetic Diversity NPR - Maria GodoyCall it a tale of science and derring-do. An international team of researchers has spent six years fanning across the globe, gathering thousands of samples of wild relatives of crops. Their goal: to preserve
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Climate Change Warming at the poles will soon be felt globally in rising seas, extreme weather National Geographic - Climate 101: Causes and EffectsIce loss, permafrost melt, fires: Trouble in the Arctic and Antarctic could cause shocks to the world’s weather and sea levels sooner than thought, says a new study. Eric Post has observed seasons at same
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.South Philadelphia Here’s why you’ll fall in love with Philadelphia National Geographic - By Johnna Rizzo and Dina LitovskyThis comeback American city is making a splash with global cuisine, amazing art, and a revolutionary spirit. Think of Detroit, Cleveland, and Cincinnati: resurgent, postindustrial American cities that
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Space Japanese Asteroid Probe Tests Ion Engine for Journey Home to Earth space.com - Leonard David A Japanese asteroid probe is getting fired up for its return to Earth. A recent test of the ion engine that powers Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft went …
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Dark Matter Are there multiple universes? | New Scientist newscientist.com What – one vast, ancient and mysterious universe isn’t enough for you? Well, as it happens, there are others. Among physicists, it’s not …
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Instagram Joshua Tree National Park Looks Insanely Beautiful After a Weekend of Snow Sunset - Kate Wertheimer A Thanksgiving gift – snow in the desert! Thanks to all our guests who make hosting so rewarding and our amazing cleaners and neighbors who make it …
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Nuclear Weapons How Big Would a Nuclear War Need to Be to Upend Global Civilization? realclearscience.com - Ross Pomeroy There are 13,865 nuclear warheads presently in existence, but it could only take one hundred of them to set off a "Nuclear Autumn," creating a 10 to …
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Wine Why the Central Coast is California’s next great wine destination National Geographic - Danielle BernabeIn Paso Robles, an adventurous spirit is inspiring a community of sustainable-minded winemakers, distillers, and brewers. Between the well-trafficked California wine regions of Napa and Sonoma to the and
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Meteorites Researchers Think The Fireball That Exploded Over Australia Was A Minimoon - Science Mashable - Aakarsh DubeCover Artwork: Dhawal Bhanushali/Mashable IndiaResearchers think the fireball that exploded over the Australian desert on 22 August 2016 might have been a minimoon. The fireball was identified through
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Science Black Hole Singularities Are as Inescapable as Expected Quanta Magazine - Steve Nadis For the first time, physicists have calculated exactly what kind of singularity lies at the center of a realistic black hole. In January 1916, Karl …
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Science Space-based lasers track Earth's largest animal migration in unprecedented global study newatlas.com - David Szondy A joint study by NASA and the French space agency, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), has used space-based lasers to produce the first global …
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Science These 6 images capture some of the stunning diversity of life on Earth Inverse - Claire Cameron Our planet is home to some truly fantastic beasts. The Earth is home to an incredibly diverse array of animals — some 1.2 million species are known to …
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Science ‘Remarkable’ fossil features an insect trapped in amber, stuck to a dinosaur jaw sciencemag.org - John Pickrell It isn’t every day that scientists dig up a dinosaur jaw—or unearth the remains of fossilized insects. So paleontologists couldn’t believe their luck …
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Space This Stunning Video on The True Scale of Black Holes Might Just Crush Your Brain ScienceAlert - Fiona MacDonald Black holes are vast, matter-annihilating objects that seem to defy physics by their very existence. They're so weird, that when Albert Einstein's …
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Environment This dark material: the black alchemy that can arrest carbon emissions The Guardian - Jessica MurrayIt traps carbon in the ground for centuries, boosts plant growth, provides a sustainable heat source and could even reduce methane emissions from cows. Biochar may not be a silver bullet to combating climate
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D.Science Mysterious tectonic fault zone found off California National Geographic - Earth 101A new method using fiber-optic cables pinpointed the previously hidden system—and it may reveal more seismic surprises around the globe. Beneath the cerulean waters of Monterey Bay, just a few miles southeast
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D. Britain faces 'waste battery mountain' as electric car use surges The Telegraph - By Charles HymasBritain faces a new waste crisis from a “ battery mountain” caused by the growing use of electric cars, according to an academic study. Researchers have calculated that the one million electric cars sold
Filipe Azevedo, Ph.D. Water Is Really Hard and Expensive to Split. These Guys Might Have a Solution. Popular Mechanics - By Caroline DelbertScientists from Trinity College Dublin have teamed up to begin solving one of the big problems facing clean energy hydrogen production. They've been studying ways to better catalyze splitting water into
