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Last updated: May 24th, 2023 at 12:51 UTC+02:00 Samsung is on a roll with adding the Digital Key feature to the Wallet platform. Last week, the company introduced the Digital Key feature to Samsung Wallet in Brazil, and now, the company turned its attention to another country from the Southern Hemisphere: Australia. The Digital Key feature is now available for Galaxy device users in Australia, as long as they have a compatible BMW vehicle that supports keyless entry. As the name implies, the Digital Key feature in…

Dr. Bai Zhixuan and his colleagues launched a balloon in Golmud, Qinghai province on March 2021, as part of the SWOP campaign. Credit: Chen Zhixiong An international team led by researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has detected aerosols from the Hunga Tonga eruption in the Northern Hemisphere stratospheric westerlies for the first time.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Climate change is altering weather patterns, making it increasingly difficult to accurately predict extreme cold weather events in the short term. A group of leading meteorologists recently determined that an important physical factor, the meridional potential vorticity gradient (PVy), was…

Brief interplanetary magnetic field shift near Earth signaled a dangerous solar storm strike to the Earth which affected the arctic circles. Shortwave radio blackouts are expected in the region. After the coronal mass ejections (CME) clouds hit the magnetosphere of the Earth and caused an interplanetary magnetic field shift yesterday on January 18, today, a solar storm struck the Earth propelled by the remaining CME particles. The solar storm would have remained undetected if some satellites did not pick up on the IMF…

Topographical map of the world, with higher mountain ranges in dark brown and lower areas in green. The Northern Hemisphere has more land mass and higher mountains than the Southern Hemisphere, which contributes in part to fewer storms, according to a new study. Credit: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryResearch from the <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>University of Chicago</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Founded in…

Schematic illustration of the study. Credit: Xiaodan Guan Seasonal snow is sensitive to climate change, and is always taken as a signal of local climate changes. Against the background of global warming, the annual snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere is following an overall decreasing trend. Since snow plays an important role in…

Storms and other extreme weather events aren't divided equally between the two halves of our globe. The Southern Hemisphere is roughly 24 percent stormier than the Northern, in fact, for reasons that until now haven't been all that clear.A new study looking in detail at global storm patterns identifies the heights of mountain ranges and the circulation of energy around the oceans as two primary factors in determining how storms brew above and below the equator.To reach their conclusions, a team of researchers from the…

It has taken over two decades and one pandemic for paleontologists to unite the fossilized remains of the earliest mammal ancestors and find that their evolution which gave rise to modern humans, may have begun in the Southern Hemisphere – and not in the north as scientists have long thought.The analysis of a small collection of tiny fossilized jawbones bearing distinctive back teeth flips our understanding of when and where modern mammals evolved on its head, according to the team of researchers who produced…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the major greenhouse gases, doesn't distribute evenly around the globe. Spatial variation of CO2 regulates the climate system and carbon cycle through a physiological effect and radiative forcing. However, there is still great uncertainty about how this non-uniform spatial…

A new study by the University of Chicago and University of Washington lays out for the first time why the Southern Hemisphere is stormier than the Northern. Above: An extratropical cyclone off the coast of Australia in 2012. Credit: NASA For centuries, sailors who had been all over the world knew where the most fearsome storms of all lay in wait: the Southern Hemisphere. "The waves ran mountain-high and threatened to overwhelm…