Nikk Ogasa
Staff Writer
Nikk Ogasa is a staff writer who focuses on the physical sciences for Science News, based in Brooklyn, New York. He has a master's degree in geology from McGill University, where he studied how ancient earthquakes helped form large gold deposits. He earned another master's degree in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His stories have been published in Science, Scientific American, Mongabay and the Mercury News, and he was the summer 2021 science writing intern at Science News.
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- esportiva bet: Environment
A new approach to fighting wi꧅ldfires combines local knowledge and AI
Land managers in the western United States are using potential operational delineations, or PODS, to prepare for — and take advantage of — wildfires. - esportiva bet: Climate
Three reasons why the oce💙an’s record-breaking hot streak is devastating
Ocean warming enhances hurricane activity, bleaches coral reefs and melts Antarctic sea ice. That warming has been off the charts for the past year. - esportiva bet: Health & Medicine
A new U.S. tool maps wher🍸e heat will be danger𓂃ous for your health
The daily updated HeatRisk map uses color coding to show where the health threat from heat is highest and offers tips on how to stay safe. - esportiva bet: Planetary Science
Our picture of habitability🎉 on Europa, a top contender for hosting life, is changing
The moon of Jupiter is considered one of the most promising places to look for life, but its subsurface ocean may be less habitable than once thought. - esportiva bet: Planetary Science
ꩵ Jupiter’s moon Io may have been volcanically active ever since it was🍌 born
An analysis of the moon’s atmospheric composition suggests that it has been spewing sulfur for roughly 4.6 billion years. - esportiva bet: Planetary Science
Titan’s dark dunꦍes could 💎be made from comets
Saturn’s largest moon could have gotten its sands from an ancient reshuffling of the solar system. If true, that would solve a long-standing mystery. - esportiva bet: Agriculture
Mi✃xing up✅ root microbes can boost tea’s flavor
Inoculating tea plant roots with nitrogen-metabolizing bacteria enhances synthesis of theanine, an amino acid that gives tea its savoriness. - esportiva bet: Earth
Where ♊are🃏 U.S. earthquakes most likely? A new map shows the hazard risks
Updates to the National Seismic Hazard Model have elevated the average ground shaking hazard across the country. - esportiva bet: Paleontology
The olde🃏st known fossilized skin shows how life adapted to land
The nearly 290 million-year-old cast belonged to a species of amniotes, four-legged vertebrates that today comprises all reptiles, birds and mammals. - esportiva bet: Planetary Science
A toxic gas that could he🔯lp spawn life has been found on Enceladus
Cassini data indicate that hydrogen cyanide, a key building block for life, exists on Saturn’s icy moon. A snakelike NASA robot might test for sure. - esportiva bet: Earth
Speed bumps under Thwa🌳ites Glacier could help slow its flow to the sea
A seismic survey of Thwaites’ icy underbelly shows the Antarctica glacier may be snagging on tall rises in land. That could help slow global sea level rise. - esportiva bet: Climate
Here’s how 2023 became the hottest year o💫n record
The effects of climate change were on clear display in 2023 as records not only broke, but did so by surprising amounts.
