San Francisco Chronicle: The eminent climate scientist Stephen Schneider died yesterday of a heart attack. He was 65. Schneider’s research focused on the effects of carbon dioxide and aerosols. He was also a strong proponent of mitigating the effects of greenhouse gases. In a recent paper, he and his coauthors used citation data to demonstrate that 98% of the world’s top climate scientists believe that greenhouse gases are warming our planet.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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