Climate Explained: How Much of Climate Change is Natural? How Much is Man-Made?
How much climate change is natural? How much is man-made?
September 18, 2019
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This Light-Based Nervous System Helps Robots ‘Feels’
Last night, way past midnight, I stumbled onto my porch blindly grasping for my keys after a hellish day of international travel. Lights were low, I was half-asleep, yet my hand grabbed the keychain, found the lock, and opened the...
September 27, 2019
Engineers develop ‘blackest black’ material to date
MIT engineers report today that they have cooked up a material that is 10 times blacker than anything that has previously been reported. The material is made from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, or CNTs — microscopic filaments of carbon, like...
September 26, 2019
US and Canada have lost more than 1 in 4 birds in the past 50 years
A study published today in the journal Science reveals that since 1970, bird populations in the United States and Canada have declined by 29 percent, or almost 3 billion birds, signaling a widespread ecological crisis. The results show tremendous losses across diverse...
September 26, 2019
Drinking tea improves brain health, study suggests
A recent study led by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) revealed that regular tea drinkers have better organised brain regions — and this is associated with healthy cognitive function — compared to non-tea drinkers. The research team...
September 22, 2019
Antibiotic Resistance Surges In Dolphins, Mirroring Humans 13 Years Of Antibiotic Resistance Trends In Bottlenose Dolphins
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest public health challenges in the world today since many common bacterial infections are developing resistance to the drugs once used to treat them, and new antibiotics aren’t being developed fast enough to combat...
September 22, 2019
Transplanted Brain Stem Cells Survive Without Anti-Rejection Drugs In Mice
In experiments in mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have developed a way to successfully transplant certain protective brain cells without the need for lifelong anti-rejection drugs. A report on the research, published Sept. 16 in the journal Brain, details...
September 22, 2019
Most Massive Neutron Star Ever Detected, Almost Too Massive To Exist
Written by Green Bank Observatory Astronomers using the GBT have discovered the most massive neutron star to date, a rapidly spinning pulsar approximately 4,600 light-years from Earth. This record-breaking object is teetering on the edge of existence, approaching the theoretical maximum mass possible for a...
September 22, 2019
I Stand With The Climate Striking Students – It’s Time To Create A New Economy
Julia K. Steinberger, University of Leeds I initiated a letter of support to climate striking students – an English version of the German letter coordinated by ecologist Gregor Hagerdorn, signed by more than 1,000 academics – for many reasons. My...
September 22, 2019
A Photographer Captured these Beautiful Light Pillars in Northern Ontario
Really breathtaking.
September 18, 2019
How Friction Leads to Static Electricity
Scientists developed a new model, which shows that rubbing two objects together produces static electricity, or triboelectricity, by bending the tiny protrusions on the surface of materials.
September 18, 2019