Science news articles about 'millenium'

A geographer from the University of Leicester has produced for the first time a map of the scorched Earth for every year since the turn of the Millennium. Dr Kevin Tansey, of the Department of ...

A geographer has produced for the first time a map of the scorched Earth for every year since the turn of the millennium. The map reveals that between 3.5 and 4.5 million square kilometers of ...

... tests and to the provenancing of the respective pumice samples to partially far-reaching volcanic eruptions, it became possible to redefine a piece of cultural history from the second millenium B.C.

... authors use the neutral theory to predict the number of tree species and to test predictions of the Millenium Ecosystems Assessment that forecasts major tree extinctions in the Amazon over the next ...

At the halfway point of the global project to eradicate poverty, asks how much has been achieved and how science can help.

On its opening day, the London Millennium Bridge experienced unexpected swaying due to the large number of people crossing it. A new study finally explains the Millennium Bridge 'wobble' by ...

... problems in mathematics known as the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture. That conjecture is one of the seven Millenium Prize Problems posed by the Clay Math Institute with a prize of one million ...