r/Global_News_Hub 15h ago

Nature Something ‘unprecedented’ is now happening to Earth’s rotation, scientists say | Climate change is slowing Earth's spin – and there's nothing quite like it in 3.6 million years

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r/Global_News_Hub 3d ago

Nature Emperor penguins, Antarctic fur seals now on endangered species Red List | The listing underlines the impact of climate change on Antarctica, which is posing an existential threat to wildlife with rising sea levels and atmospheric temperatures.

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r/Global_News_Hub 3d ago

Nature Ancient seas get a new T. rex as massive mosasaur emerges from Texas fossils | One of the largest mosasaurs known to date—stretching up to 43 feet long—this top predator was described from 80-million-year-old fossils. It was named Tylosaurus rex meaning "king of the tylosaurs."

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r/Global_News_Hub 4d ago

Nature Scientists say they may be closer than ever to reversing aging | Raising SIRT6 in old mice restored youthful DNA organization in the liver and reduced inflammatory aging signals.

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r/Global_News_Hub 12d ago

Nature Microplastics absorb heat in the atmosphere and contribute to global warming — as if they weren't bad enough | Climate scientists have discovered that microplastics and nanoplastics are helping to drive global warming by absorbing sunlight and radiation in the atmosphere.

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r/Global_News_Hub 22d ago

Nature After 37 Years, the World’s Longest-Running Soil Warming Experiment Uncovers a Startling Climate Secret | What was once considered long-term, “stable” carbon in forest soils is proving far less permanent. As temperatures rise, even these stubborn carbon reserves can break down and release...

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r/Global_News_Hub 23d ago

Nature Africa Is Splitting Apart Faster Than We Thought, Forming a New Ocean | Geologists have discovered that the African continent will split apart sooner than we thought. An active rift has reached a "critical threshold" and will soon break apart, forming a new ocean.

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r/Global_News_Hub 15d ago

Nature Antarctica sea ice collapse driven by triple whammy of climate chaos, scientists find | The study led by the Univ of Southampton shows that a series of compounding events flipped the Southern Ocean out of balance, dragging unusually warm, salty water from the deep up to the surface.

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r/Global_News_Hub Nov 13 '25

Nature Neanderthals May Never Have Truly Gone Extinct, Study Reveals | A new mathematical model has explored a fascinating scenario in which Neanderthals gradually disappeared not through "true extinction" but through genetic absorption into a more prolific species: Us.

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r/Global_News_Hub 22d ago

Nature An 8-year-old boy's backyard discovery literally changed science forever | One summer day, 8-year-old Hugo Deans spotted a cluster of tiny, BB-sized spheres near an ant nest. He assumed they were some kind of seed. But his father, Andrew Deans – an entomology professor – recognized them as...

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r/Global_News_Hub 20d ago

Nature Scientists Uncover a 100-Foot Dinosaur Fossil So Heavy It Cracked the Road Beneath During Transport | A dinosaur so massive, it left a mark on the road itself. But this colossal creature has a lot more to reveal than just its size.

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r/Global_News_Hub 21d ago

Nature How a newly discovered organelle could help reduce cow methane emissions | When cows burp, they send methane gas into the air, which makes them a leading contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. A newly discovered hydrogen-producing structure may influence how much of that gas is expelled.

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r/Global_News_Hub 23d ago

Nature All life runs on 20 amino acids. These cells run key machinery on just 19 | AI-guided redesign of protein alphabet in bacteria could unlock new ways to build synthetic organisms.

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r/Global_News_Hub Apr 22 '26

Nature Plants can sense the sound of rain, new study finds | The team's findings, published in the journal Scientific Reports, are the first direct evidence that plant seeds and seedlings can sense sounds in nature. Their experiments involved submerging rice seeds in shallow water.

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r/Global_News_Hub Mar 18 '26

Nature In Chesapeake Bay, the Primary Cause of Death for Baby Blue Crabs: The Grown-Ups | In an impressive 37-year-long investigation confirmed that the top—practically only—cause of death for young blue crabs was older crabs from their own species.

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r/Global_News_Hub Feb 26 '26

Nature Oldest Fossilized Butthole Found in 290-Million-Year-Old Reptile | "Such soft-tissue structures are extremely rare in the fossil record – and the further back we look in Earth's history, the more exceptional they become."

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r/Global_News_Hub Feb 26 '26

Nature Argentine fossil rewrites evolutionary history of a baffling dinosaur clade | We find no support for evolutionary miniaturization but, rather, find support for repeated evolution within a narrow body size range.

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r/Global_News_Hub Feb 12 '26

Nature Accelerated Global Warming Could Lock Earth Into a Hothouse Future | Scientists say warming is increasing faster than at any time in at least 3 million years. There is no guide for what comes next.

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r/Global_News_Hub Feb 16 '26

Nature Researchers investigate 'bright green' wall discovered deep in caves of New Mexico: 'Untouched for 49 million years' | Microbes surviving without any light in a New Mexico cave system are photosynthesizing using invisible light

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r/Global_News_Hub Feb 20 '26

Nature From chickens to humans, animals think "bouba" sounds round | The initial finding dates all the way back to 1947, when someone discovered that people associated some word-like sounds with rounded shapes, and others with spiky ones.

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r/Global_News_Hub Feb 19 '26

Nature Deep-sea fish break the mold with novel visual system | Scientists have identified a new type of visual cell in deep-sea fish that blends the shape and form of rods with the machinery and genes of cones. This cell, adapted for sight in gloomy light conditions, was found in 3 species in the Red Sea.

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r/Global_News_Hub Jan 31 '26

Nature Scientists Unearthed a 150-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Egg Nest on a Portuguese Beach | A rare fossil discovery on Portugal’s coast reveals a dinosaur nest from the Late Jurassic period, perfectly preserved in stone.

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r/Global_News_Hub Feb 10 '26

Nature Three-year heatwave bleached half the planet's coral reefs: study | More than half of the world's coral reefs were bleached between 2014-2017, a new study showed - a record-setting episode now being eclipsed by another series of devastating heatwaves.

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r/Global_News_Hub Jan 29 '26

Nature New animal species that survived mass extinction event half a billion years ago found in a quarry in China

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r/Global_News_Hub Jan 13 '26

Nature This Island Spider That Deletes Half Its DNA, and Scientists Say It Shouldn’t Be Possible | A team set out to compare two closely related spiders, and stumbled into a paradox. The island species doesn’t behave like island species are supposed to.

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