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01/12/2020 How to restore the legendary acoustics of Notre Dame Using heritage acoustics, researchers hope to help restore the sound of Paris's Notre Dame cathedral. Read More Wildfires could flip parts of the Amazon from a carbon sponge to a source by 2050 Climate change and deforestation could double the area burned by fire in the southern Amazon by 2050. Read More Homo erectus arrived in Indonesia 300,000 years later than previously thought The extinct, humanlike hominid likely reached the island of Java by around 1.3 million years ago, a study finds. Read More Young stars have been found in an old part of our galaxy A cluster of young stars in the Milky Way is hanging out where it seemingly shouldn’t exist. Read More Here’s how climate change may make Australia’s wildfires more common An El Niño–like ocean-atmosphere weather pattern called the Indian Ocean dipole helped fuel extremely dry conditions in Australia. Read More Ocean acidification may not make fish act weird after all A new study casts doubt on the results of early work into the effects of ocean acidification on coral reef fish behavior. Read More Bubble-blowing galaxies could help solve a cosmic mystery Three galaxies ionizing hydrogen 680 million years after the Big Bang show a potential step in the ionization of nearly all hydrogen in the cosmos. Read More A ‘bonanza’ of new bird species was found on remote Indonesian islands Bird discoveries typically come in a trickle. But in a remote corner of Southeast Asia, 10 newly described songbird species and subspecies were found. Read More Climate models agree things will get bad. Capturing just how bad is tricky Climate models are better than ever at simulating complex interactions between ocean, air, ice and land. But scientists still aren’t really sure what the worst-case scenario might be for Earth’s future climate. Read More What we know — and don’t know — about a new virus causing pneumonia in China There’s little evidence so far of person-to-person transmission, but experts urge vigilance. Read More Privacy policy  |  Update Profile  | Manage Subscriptions  |   Unsubscribe This email was sent by: Society for Science & the Public 1719 N Street NW Washington, DC, 20036, US